Foundations of Mathematics Questions of Analysis, Geometry & Algorithmics / by Erwin Engeler.

This book appeared about ten years ago in Gennan. It started as notes for a course which I gave intermittently at the ETH over a number of years. Following repeated suggestions, this English translation was commissioned by Springer; they were most fortunate in finding translators whose mathemati­ ca...

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Main Author: Engeler, Erwin. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Edition:1st ed. 1993.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. The Continuum
  • §1 What Are the Real Numbers?
  • §2 Language as Part of Mathematics
  • §3 Elementary Theory of Real Numbers
  • §4 Non-Standard Analysis
  • §5 Axiom of Choice and Continuum Hypothesis
  • II. Geometry
  • §1 Space and Mathematics
  • §2 Axiomatization by Means of Coordinates
  • §3 Metatheoretical Questions and Methods in Elementary Geometry
  • §4 Geometric Constructions
  • III. Algorithmics
  • §1 What is an Algorithm?
  • §2 The Existence of Combinatory Algebras: Combinatory Logic
  • §3 Concrete Combinatory Algebras
  • §4 Lambda Calculus
  • §5 Computability and Combinatorss.