Model Theory
Model Theory
This is an up-to-date and integrated introduction to model theory, designed to be used for graduate courses (for students who are familiar with first-order logic), and as a reference for more experienced logicians and mathematicians. Model theory is concerned with the notions of definition, interpretation and structure in a very general setting, and is applied to a wide variety of other areas such as set theory, geometry, algebra (in particular group theory), and computer science (e.g. logic programming and specification). Professor Hodges emphasises definability and methods of construction, and introduces the reader to advanced topics such as stability. He also provides the reader with much historical information and a full bibliography, enhancing the book's use as a reference.
- Hodges is successful author of many books (including general level)
- Many years in preparation
- Definitive work on model theory
Product details
June 2008Paperback
9780521066365
788 pages
235 × 155 × 40 mm
1.11kg
1 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Language and Structure:
- 1. Naming of parts
- 2. Classifying structures
- 3. Structures that look alike
- 4. Automorphisms
- 5. Interpretations
- Part II. Piecing Together a Structure:
- 6. The first order case
- 7. The countable case
- 8. The existential case
- 9. The Horn case
- Part III. Consequences of Compactness:
- 10. Saturation
- 11. Combinatorial
- 12. Expansions and categoricity
- Examples
- Bibliography
- Index.
