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- From: auerbach@ncsu.edu (David D Auerbach)
- Subject: Re: godel theorem and godel theorem ....(Re: Where's
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:13:52 GMT
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- An incredibly nice book on the Godel theorems, very very clean has just
- come out--Smullyan: Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. It is very uptodate
- in using "technology" that avoids doing extra mathematics and in giving
- abstract (i.e. operator, i.e. we don't need your stinking quantifiers)
- versions of various flavors of the proof. Very elegant and some nice
- connections with the truth results that I hadn't known about (perhaps not
- a remarkable claim), namely Askanas' Theorem.
- Bonuses are an accurate treatment of the Second Theorem and of the Rosser
- systems.
- Smullyans 135 pages should erase some of the confusions evident in some of
- this thread.
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