Author : Martin Otto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316739279
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Book Synopsis Bounded Variable Logics and Counting by : Martin Otto
Download or read book Bounded Variable Logics and Counting written by Martin Otto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception, the Perspectives in Logic and Lecture Notes in Logic series have published seminal works by leading logicians. Many of the original books in the series have been unavailable for years, but they are now in print once again. In this volume, the ninth publication in the Lecture Notes in Logic series, Martin Otto gives an introduction to finite model theory that indicates the main ideas and lines of inquiry that motivate research in this area. Particular attention is paid to bounded variable infinitary logics, with and without counting quantifiers, related fixed-point logics, and the corresponding fragments of Ptime. The relations with Ptime exhibit the fruitful exchange between ideas from logic and from complexity theory that is characteristic of finite model theory.