The Logic of Provability

by George S. Boolos

This book, written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic invented by Aristotle but much disparaged by philosophers and virtually ignored by mathematicians. Here it receives its first scientific application since its invention.

Genres: Logic, Mathematics, Science, Philosophy, Textbooks

314 pages, Hardcover

First published February 25, 1994