A Framework for Priority Arguments - Couverture rigide

Lerman, Manuel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521119693 ISBN 13 : 9780521119696

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book presents a unifying framework for using priority arguments to prove theorems in computability. Priority arguments provide the most powerful theorem-proving technique in the field, but most of the applications of this technique are ad hoc, masking the unifying principles used in the proofs. The proposed framework presented isolates many of these unifying combinatorial principles and uses them to give shorter and easier-to-follow proofs of computability-theoretic theorems. Standard theorems of priority levels 1, 2, and 3 are chosen to demonstrate the framework's use, with all proofs following the same pattern. The last section features a new example requiring priority at all finite levels. The book will serve as a resource and reference for researchers in logic and computability, helping them to prove theorems in a shorter and more transparent manner.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Manuel Lerman is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Degrees of Unsolvability: Local and Global Theory, has been the managing editor for the book series Perspectives in Mathematical Logic, has been an editor of Bulletin for Symbolic Logic, and is an editor of the ASL's Lecture Notes in Logic series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521119693
• ISBN 13: 9780521119696
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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