Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic

Feferman, Anita Burdman & Solomon Feferman

ISBN 10: 0521802407 / ISBN 13: 9780521802406

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Hardcover with dustjacket, "The story of a remarkable Polish mathematician who fled the Nazi persecution, came to the United States, and single-handedly created a world center for the study of logic at the Mathematics Department of the University of California at Berkeley," illustrated, includes a bibliography, book has a few moderate edge-bumps and no other remarkable flaws, the jacket is scuffed on the rear panel and is otherwise clean and attractive, a professional (removable) mylar cover is included ; ; 432 pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521802407
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521802406
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science

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Synopsis

Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His work on the concepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones of modern logic, influencing developments in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. Tarski was a charismatic teacher and zealous promoter of his view of logic as the foundation of all rational thought, a bon vivant and a womanizer, who played the 'great man' to the hilt. A fortuitous trip to the United States at the outbreak of World War II saved his life and turned his career around, even while it separated him from his family for years. From the cafés of Warsaw and Vienna to the mountains and deserts of California, this first full-length biography places Tarski in the social, intellectual, and historical context of his times and presents a frank, vivid picture of a personally and professionally passionate man - interlaced with an account of his major scientific achievements.

À propos des auteurs

Anita Burdman Feferman is an independent scholar and writer. She is the author of Politics, Logic and Love: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort (published in paperback as From Trotsky to Gödel: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort). She knew Alfred Tarski socially for thirty years.

Solomon Feferman is on the faculty of Stanford University, California, where he is Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy. He is a recipient of the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has held a Guggenheim fellowship twice. He is the author of In the Light of Logic and the editor-in-chief of the multi-volume Kurt Gödel: Collected Works. He was one of Tarski's students at UC Berkeley in the 1950s.