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Proofs and Computations
Driven by the question, 'What is the computational content of a (formal) proof?', this book studies fundamental interactions between proof theory and computability. It provides a unique self-contained text for advanced students and researchers in mathematical logic and computer science. Part I covers basic proof theory, computability and Gödel's theorems. Part II studies and classifies provable recursion in classical systems, from fragments of Peano arithmetic up to Π11–CA0. Ordinal analysis and the (Schwichtenberg–Wainer) subrecursive hierarchies play a central role and are used in proving the 'modified finite Ramsey' and 'extended Kruskal' independence results for PA and Π11–CA0. Part III develops the theoretical underpinnings of the first author's proof assistant MINLOG. Three chapters cover higher-type computability via information systems, a constructive theory TCF of computable functionals, realizability, Dialectica interpretation, computationally significant quantifiers and connectives and polytime complexity in a two-sorted, higher-type arithmetic with linear logic.
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Proofs and Computations
Driven by the question, 'What is the computational content of a (formal) proof?', this book studies fundamental interactions between proof theory and computability. It provides a unique self-contained text for advanced students and researchers in mathematical logic and computer science. Part I covers basic proof theory, computability and Gödel's theorems. Part II studies and classifies provable recursion in classical systems, from fragments of Peano arithmetic up to Π11–CA0. Ordinal analysis and the (Schwichtenberg–Wainer) subrecursive hierarchies play a central role and are used in proving the 'modified finite Ramsey' and 'extended Kruskal' independence results for PA and Π11–CA0. Part III develops the theoretical underpinnings of the first author's proof assistant MINLOG. Three chapters cover higher-type computability via information systems, a constructive theory TCF of computable functionals, realizability, Dialectica interpretation, computationally significant quantifiers and connectives and polytime complexity in a two-sorted, higher-type arithmetic with linear logic.
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Proofs and Computations

Proofs and Computations

Proofs and Computations

Proofs and Computations

Overview

Driven by the question, 'What is the computational content of a (formal) proof?', this book studies fundamental interactions between proof theory and computability. It provides a unique self-contained text for advanced students and researchers in mathematical logic and computer science. Part I covers basic proof theory, computability and Gödel's theorems. Part II studies and classifies provable recursion in classical systems, from fragments of Peano arithmetic up to Π11–CA0. Ordinal analysis and the (Schwichtenberg–Wainer) subrecursive hierarchies play a central role and are used in proving the 'modified finite Ramsey' and 'extended Kruskal' independence results for PA and Π11–CA0. Part III develops the theoretical underpinnings of the first author's proof assistant MINLOG. Three chapters cover higher-type computability via information systems, a constructive theory TCF of computable functionals, realizability, Dialectica interpretation, computationally significant quantifiers and connectives and polytime complexity in a two-sorted, higher-type arithmetic with linear logic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521517690
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Series: Perspectives in Logic
Pages: 480
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Helmut Schwichtenberg is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has recently developed the 'proof-assistant' MINLOG, a computer-implemented logic system for proof/program development and extraction of computational content.

Stanley S. Wainer is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Leeds and a past-President of the British Logic Colloquium.

Table of Contents

Preface; Preliminaries; Part I. Basic Proof Theory and Computability: 1. Logic; 2. Recursion theory; 3. Godel's theorems; Part II. Provable Recursion in Classical Systems: 4. The provably recursive functions of arithmetic; 5. Accessible recursive functions, ID<ω and Π11–CA0; Part III. Constructive Logic and Complexity: 6. Computability in higher types; 7. Extracting computational content from proofs; 8. Linear two-sorted arithmetic; Bibliography; Index.
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