Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics: Volume 4

Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics: Volume 4
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9781316873632
ISBN-13 : 1316873633
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Synopsis Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics: Volume 4 by : Alexander S. Kechris

The proceedings of the Los Angeles Caltech-UCLA 'Cabal Seminar' were originally published in the 1970s and 1980s. Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics is the final volume in a series of four books collecting the seminal papers from the original volumes together with extensive unpublished material, new papers on related topics and discussion of research developments since the publication of the original volumes. This final volume contains Parts VII and VIII of the series. Part VII focuses on 'Extensions of AD, models with choice', while Part VIII ('Other topics') collects material important to the Cabal that does not fit neatly into one of its main themes. These four volumes will be a necessary part of the book collection of every set theorist.

Extensions of the Axiom of Determinacy

Extensions of the Axiom of Determinacy
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Publisher : American Mathematical Society
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9781470472108
ISBN-13 : 1470472104
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Synopsis Extensions of the Axiom of Determinacy by : Paul B. Larson

This is an expository account of work on strong forms of the Axiom of Determinacy (AD) by a group of set theorists in Southern California, in particular by W. Hugh Woodin. The first half of the book reviews necessary background material, including the Moschovakis Coding Lemma, the existence of strong partition cardinals, and the analysis of pointclasses in models of determinacy. The second half of the book introduces Woodin's axiom system $mathrm{AD}^{+}$ and presents his initial analysis of these axioms. These results include the consistency of $mathrm{AD}^{+}$ from the consistency of AD, and its local character and initial motivation. Proofs are given of fundamental results by Woodin, Martin, and Becker on the relationships among AD, $mathrm{AD}^{+}$, the Axiom of Real Determinacy, and the Suslin property. Many of these results are proved in print here for the first time. The book briefly discusses later work and fundamental questions which remain open. The study of models of $mathrm{AD}^{+}$ is an active area of contemporary research in set theory. The presentation is aimed at readers with a background in basic set theory, including forcing and ultrapowers. Some familiarity with classical results on regularity properties for sets of reals under AD is also expected.

The Scottish Book

The Scottish Book
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Publisher : Birkhäuser
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9783319228976
ISBN-13 : 3319228978
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Synopsis The Scottish Book by : R. Daniel Mauldin

The second edition of this book updates and expands upon a historically important collection of mathematical problems first published in the United States by Birkhäuser in 1981. These problems serve as a record of the informal discussions held by a group of mathematicians at the Scottish Café in Lwów, Poland, between the two world wars. Many of them were leaders in the development of such areas as functional and real analysis, group theory, measure and set theory, probability, and topology. Finding solutions to the problems they proposed has been ongoing since World War II, with prizes offered in many cases to those who are successful. In the 35 years since the first edition published, several more problems have been fully or partially solved, but even today many still remain unsolved and several prizes remain unclaimed. In view of this, the editor has gathered new and updated commentaries on the original 193 problems. Some problems are solved for the first time in this edition. Included again in full are transcripts of lectures given by Stanislaw Ulam, Mark Kac, Antoni Zygmund, Paul Erdös, and Andrzej Granas that provide amazing insights into the mathematical environment of Lwów before World War II and the development of The Scottish Book. Also new in this edition are a brief history of the University of Wrocław’s New Scottish Book, created to revive the tradition of the original, and some selected problems from it. The Scottish Book offers a unique opportunity to communicate with the people and ideas of a time and place that had an enormous influence on the development of mathematics and try their hand on the unsolved problems. Anyone in the general mathematical community with an interest in the history of modern mathematics will find this to be an insightful and fascinating read.

Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics

Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781107182998
ISBN-13 : 1107182999
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics by : Alexander S. Kechris

The final volume in a series of four books presenting the seminal papers from the Caltech-UCLA 'Cabal Seminar'.

The Higher Infinite

The Higher Infinite
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 555
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ISBN-10 : 9783540888673
ISBN-13 : 3540888675
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Synopsis The Higher Infinite by : Akihiro Kanamori

Over the years, this book has become a standard reference and guide in the set theory community. It provides a comprehensive account of the theory of large cardinals from its beginnings and some of the direct outgrowths leading to the frontiers of contemporary research, with open questions and speculations throughout.

Logic and Its Applications

Logic and Its Applications
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9783031266898
ISBN-13 : 3031266897
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Synopsis Logic and Its Applications by : Mohua Banerjee

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Indian Conference on Logic and Its Applications, ICLA 2023, which was held in Indore, India, in March 2023. Besides 6 invited papers presented in this volume, there are 9 contributed full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The volume covers a wide range of topics. These topics are related to modal and temporal logics, intuitionistic connexive and imperative logics, systems for reasoning with vagueness and rough concepts, topological quasi-Boolean logic and quasi-Boolean based rough set models, and first-order definability of path functions of graphs.

A Comparison Process for Mouse Pairs

A Comparison Process for Mouse Pairs
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 549
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ISBN-10 : 9781108840682
ISBN-13 : 110884068X
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Synopsis A Comparison Process for Mouse Pairs by : John R. Steel

This book proves some important new theorems in the theory of canonical inner models for large cardinal hypotheses, a topic of central importance in modern set theory. In particular, the author 'completes' the theory of Fine Structure and Iteration Trees (FSIT) by proving a comparison theorem for mouse pairs parallel to the FSIT comparison theorem for pure extender mice, and then using the underlying comparison process to develop a fine structure theory for strategy mice. Great effort has been taken to make the book accessible to non-experts so that it may also serve as an introduction to the higher reaches of inner model theory. It contains a good deal of background material, some of it unpublished folklore, and includes many references to the literature to guide further reading. An introductory essay serves to place the new results in their broader context. This is a landmark work in inner model theory that should be in every set theorist's library.

The Axiom of Determinacy, Forcing Axioms, and the Nonstationary Ideal

The Axiom of Determinacy, Forcing Axioms, and the Nonstationary Ideal
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 944
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ISBN-10 : 9783110804737
ISBN-13 : 3110804735
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Synopsis The Axiom of Determinacy, Forcing Axioms, and the Nonstationary Ideal by : W. Hugh Woodin

The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs on all areas of mathematical logic and its applications. It is addressed to advanced students and research mathematicians, and may also serve as a guide for lectures and for seminars at the graduate level.

Ordinal Definability and Recursion Theory: Volume 3

Ordinal Definability and Recursion Theory: Volume 3
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 552
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ISBN-10 : 9781316586280
ISBN-13 : 1316586286
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Ordinal Definability and Recursion Theory: Volume 3 by : Alexander S. Kechris

The proceedings of the Los Angeles Caltech-UCLA 'Cabal Seminar' were originally published in the 1970s and 1980s. Ordinal Definability and Recursion Theory is the third in a series of four books collecting the seminal papers from the original volumes together with extensive unpublished material, new papers on related topics and discussion of research developments since the publication of the original volumes. Focusing on the subjects of 'HOD and its Local Versions' (Part V) and 'Recursion Theory' (Part VI), each of the two sections is preceded by an introductory survey putting the papers into present context. These four volumes will be a necessary part of the book collection of every set theorist.

Handbook of Set Theory

Handbook of Set Theory
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 2200
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ISBN-10 : 9781402057649
ISBN-13 : 1402057644
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook of Set Theory by : Matthew Foreman

Numbers imitate space, which is of such a di?erent nature —Blaise Pascal It is fair to date the study of the foundation of mathematics back to the ancient Greeks. The urge to understand and systematize the mathematics of the time led Euclid to postulate axioms in an early attempt to put geometry on a ?rm footing. With roots in the Elements, the distinctive methodology of mathematics has become proof. Inevitably two questions arise: What are proofs? and What assumptions are proofs based on? The ?rst question, traditionally an internal question of the ?eld of logic, was also wrestled with in antiquity. Aristotle gave his famous syllogistic s- tems, and the Stoics had a nascent propositional logic. This study continued with ?ts and starts, through Boethius, the Arabs and the medieval logicians in Paris and London. The early germs of logic emerged in the context of philosophy and theology. The development of analytic geometry, as exempli?ed by Descartes, ill- tratedoneofthedi?cultiesinherentinfoundingmathematics. Itisclassically phrased as the question ofhow one reconciles the arithmetic with the geom- ric. Arenumbers onetypeofthingand geometricobjectsanother? Whatare the relationships between these two types of objects? How can they interact? Discovery of new types of mathematical objects, such as imaginary numbers and, much later, formal objects such as free groups and formal power series make the problem of ?nding a common playing ?eld for all of mathematics importunate. Several pressures made foundational issues urgent in the 19th century.