Finite and Infinite Combinatorics in Sets and Logic

. Ed(s): Sauer, Norbert W.; Woodrow, Robert E.; Sands, B.

ISBN 10: 0792324226 / ISBN 13: 9780792324225

Edité par Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 21-May 4, 1991 Editor(s): Sauer, Norbert W.; Woodrow, Robert E.; Sands, B. Series: NATO Science Series C. Num Pages: 470 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBC; PBV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 840. . 1993. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Finite and Infinite Combinatorics in Sets and Logic
• Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0792324226
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780792324225
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

This volume contains the accounts of papers delivered at the Nato Advanced Study Institute on Finite and Infinite Combinatorics in Sets and Logic held at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada from April 21 to May 4, 1991. As the title suggests the meeting brought together workers interested in the interplay between finite and infinite combinatorics, set theory, graph theory and logic. It used to be that infinite set theory, finite combinatorics and logic could be viewed as quite separate and independent subjects. But more and more those disciplines grow together and become interdependent of each other with ever more problems and results appearing which concern all of those disciplines. I appreciate the financial support which was provided by the N. A. T. O. Advanced Study Institute programme, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Calgary. 11l'te meeting on Finite and Infinite Combinatorics in Sets and Logic followed two other meetings on discrete mathematics held in Banff, the Symposium on Ordered Sets in 1981 and the Symposium on Graphs and Order in 1984. The growing inter-relation between the different areas in discrete mathematics is maybe best illustrated by the fact that many of the participants who were present at the previous meetings also attended this meeting on Finite and Infinite Combinatorics in Sets and Logic.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book highlights the newly emerging connections between problems in finite combinatorics and graph theory on the one hand and the more foundational subjects of logic and set theory on the other.
One of the more obvious routes for such a connection is the straightforward generalization of certain definitions and problems from the finite to the infinite, and sometimes the other way around. Another one is to generalize some definitions and find the appropriate new concepts for the new setting, for example the discussion of ends of graphs.
The realization of the importance of homogeneous structures and their connection with logic, as well as with finite structure theory, is a good example of the connection between finite and infinite structures. Almost all of the articles in the present book touch in one way or another on homogeneous structures. The discussion of the 0--1 law, of Ramsey theory for finite and infinite structures, and of divisibility theory highlight this.