
1Propositional Logic - Princeton University Press
... The first representation is technically correct (ignoring the “use” instruction), but useless. The idea is to formalize a sentence in as finegrained an encoding as is possible with the logic at hand. The second and third representations do this. Notice that there are three different English expressi ...
... The first representation is technically correct (ignoring the “use” instruction), but useless. The idea is to formalize a sentence in as finegrained an encoding as is possible with the logic at hand. The second and third representations do this. Notice that there are three different English expressi ...
Syntax and Semantics of Dependent Types
... view becomes important if one wants to see type theory as a foundation of constructive mathematics which accordingly is to be justied by a philosophical argument rather than via an interpretation in some other system, see (Martin-Lof 1975;(1984)). For us the distinction between canonical and nonca ...
... view becomes important if one wants to see type theory as a foundation of constructive mathematics which accordingly is to be justied by a philosophical argument rather than via an interpretation in some other system, see (Martin-Lof 1975;(1984)). For us the distinction between canonical and nonca ...
Default Logic (Reiter) - Department of Computing
... classical consequence Th, and closed under the default rules D that are applicable given E. It remains to define what ‘closed under the default rules D that are applicable given E’ means. A formal definition follows presently. ...
... classical consequence Th, and closed under the default rules D that are applicable given E. It remains to define what ‘closed under the default rules D that are applicable given E’ means. A formal definition follows presently. ...
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... Example: Prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers Proof: Assume there are not infinitely many prime numbers, therefore they are listable, i.e. p1,p2,…,pn Consider the number q = p1p2…pn+1. q is not divisible by any of the listed primes Therefore, q is a prime. However, it was not ...
... Example: Prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers Proof: Assume there are not infinitely many prime numbers, therefore they are listable, i.e. p1,p2,…,pn Consider the number q = p1p2…pn+1. q is not divisible by any of the listed primes Therefore, q is a prime. However, it was not ...
Logic, Proofs, and Sets
... One of the principal aims of this course is to teach the student how to read and, to a lesser extent, write proofs. A proof is an argument intended to convince the reader that a general principle is true in all situations. The amount of detail that an author supplies in a proof should depend on the ...
... One of the principal aims of this course is to teach the student how to read and, to a lesser extent, write proofs. A proof is an argument intended to convince the reader that a general principle is true in all situations. The amount of detail that an author supplies in a proof should depend on the ...
AP Calculus AB Course Outline
... progresses, more tidbits are revealed about the TI-83’s capabilities; and each student is offered a manual should individualized exploration be desired. The textbook used is Precalculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic 6th edition by Demana, Waits, Foley, and Kennedy Throughout the course, students ...
... progresses, more tidbits are revealed about the TI-83’s capabilities; and each student is offered a manual should individualized exploration be desired. The textbook used is Precalculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic 6th edition by Demana, Waits, Foley, and Kennedy Throughout the course, students ...
computability by probabilistic turing machines
... to characterize a class of random functions, the partially computable random functions. In the present paper, the definition of PTM is extended to allow the introduction of relative computability. Relative computable functions, predicates and sets are discussed and their operations are investigated. ...
... to characterize a class of random functions, the partially computable random functions. In the present paper, the definition of PTM is extended to allow the introduction of relative computability. Relative computable functions, predicates and sets are discussed and their operations are investigated. ...
p. 1 Math 490 Notes 4 We continue our examination of well
... can neither be proved nor disproved that ℵ1 = |R|. The assertion that ℵ1 = |R| is called the Continuum Hypothesis. This hypothesis, like the Axiom of Choice, can be accepted or rejected as an axiom of set theory. The Generalized Continuum Hypothesis is the assertion that for any infinite cardinal α, ...
... can neither be proved nor disproved that ℵ1 = |R|. The assertion that ℵ1 = |R| is called the Continuum Hypothesis. This hypothesis, like the Axiom of Choice, can be accepted or rejected as an axiom of set theory. The Generalized Continuum Hypothesis is the assertion that for any infinite cardinal α, ...
Principia Mathematica

The Principia Mathematica is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics, written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910, 1912, and 1913. In 1927, it appeared in a second edition with an important Introduction To the Second Edition, an Appendix A that replaced ✸9 and an all-new Appendix C.PM, as it is often abbreviated, was an attempt to describe a set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic from which all mathematical truths could in principle be proven. As such, this ambitious project is of great importance in the history of mathematics and philosophy, being one of the foremost products of the belief that such an undertaking may be achievable. However, in 1931, Gödel's incompleteness theorem proved definitively that PM, and in fact any other attempt, could never achieve this lofty goal; that is, for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, either the system must be inconsistent, or there must in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced from them.One of the main inspirations and motivations for PM was the earlier work of Gottlob Frege on logic, which Russell discovered allowed for the construction of paradoxical sets. PM sought to avoid this problem by ruling out the unrestricted creation of arbitrary sets. This was achieved by replacing the notion of a general set with the notion of a hierarchy of sets of different 'types', a set of a certain type only allowed to contain sets of strictly lower types. Contemporary mathematics, however, avoids paradoxes such as Russell's in less unwieldy ways, such as the system of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory.PM is not to be confused with Russell's 1903 Principles of Mathematics. PM states: ""The present work was originally intended by us to be comprised in a second volume of Principles of Mathematics... But as we advanced, it became increasingly evident that the subject is a very much larger one than we had supposed; moreover on many fundamental questions which had been left obscure and doubtful in the former work, we have now arrived at what we believe to be satisfactory solutions.""The Modern Library placed it 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century.