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1. Introduction to Logic
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2. New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy
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3. Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic
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4. Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics:
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5. Undecidable Theories: Studies
 
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6. Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle:
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7. A Formalization of Set Theory
 
8. Introduction a la logique.
 
9. Ordinal Algebras (Studies In Logic
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10. Einfuhrung in die mathematische
 
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11. Proceedings of the Tarski Symposium
 
12. Das Wahrheitsproblem und die Idee
 
13. Kunstliche und naturliche Sprache:
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14. Alfred Tarski
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15. Polish Logicians: Alfred Tarski,
 
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16. Personnalité Polonaise: Vladislav
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18. Polish Atheists: Stanislaw Lem,
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20. Introduction to logic and to the

1. Introduction to Logic
by Alfred Tarski
Paperback: 239 Pages (1995-03-27)
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This classic undergraduate treatment examines the deductive method in its first part and explores applications of logic and methodology in constructing mathematical theories in its second part. Exercises appear throughout.
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4-0 out of 5 stars An Important Work in Logic History
This book has a lot of interesting remarks. I, however, feel that it is a bit too wordy.

4-0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the best written written elementary book of logic
I bought the book just because my teacher of elementary philosophy in the university respected Tarski as a master of formal logic. It took me 26 years to get this book in my hands. What makes Tarski unique is, that he was a great logician and a great teacher, too.

I belive that there still are no better guide for a student who wants to understand logic, not just try to remember basic rules of it. The beauty of logic has never been exposed in a better way.

The fifth star was spared to a new, annotated edition of this classic among the field of logic. I hope I can find one some day.

5-0 out of 5 stars TIMELESS CORE HOLDING IN ANY LOGIC LIBRARY
This timeless classic by one of the five greatest logicians of all time should be owned by anyone who cares about logic - especially at this illogically low price.The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE), the English mathematician George Boole (1815-1864), the German mathematician Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), the Austrian-American mathematician Kurt Gödel and the Polish mathematician Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) are considered to be the five greatest logicians of history.Today it is difficult to appreciate the astounding permanence of what is accomplished in the works of Aristotle, Boole, and Frege without seeing their ideas surviving in the work of a modern master.Of the two modern master logicians Tarski is by far the most suitable for this purpose since he was by far the one most interested in the articulation of the conceptual basis of logic, he was by far the one most interested in history and philosophy of logic, and he was the only one to write an introductory book attempting to explain his perspective in accessible terms. This book, together with Aristotle's Prior Analytics and Boole's Laws of Thought, should form the core of any logic library. All three are still in print and available in inexpensive paperback editions.Hackett publishes an excellent up-to-date translation of Prior Analytics by Robin Smith and Prometheus recently reprinted Laws of Thought with an introduction by John Corcoran.- Frango Nabrasa.

5-0 out of 5 stars I will always keep it as a reference
This is one of the classic introductory mathematics books. When I was learning logic, I relied on it heavily, although it was not the text for the course. Over my years as a teacher, I have consulted it often and when I was working on a recent book on logic, there were very few days when I did not open it in search of an idea or clarification.
All of the basics of logic are covered in one of the most readable texts I have ever opened. Exercises are given at the end of each chapter, although no solutions are included. This is one of those books that will always be on my key shelves of reference works and it will no doubt receive a great deal of use. ... Read more


2. New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy
Hardcover: 454 Pages (2008-11-15)
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New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy aims to show the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). The contributors are an international group of scholars, some expert in the historical background and context of Tarski's work, others specializing in aspects of his philosophical development, others more interested in understanding Tarski in the light of contemporary thought.

The essays can be seen as addressing Tarski's seminal treatment of four basic questions about logical consequence. (1) How are we to understand truth, one of the notions in terms of which logical consequence is explained?What is it that is preserved in valid inference, or that such inference allows us to discover new claims to have on the basis of old? (2) Among what kinds of things does the relation of logical consequence hold? (3) Given answers to the first two questions, what is involved in the consequence relationship itself?What is the preservation at work in "truth preservation?" (4) Finally, what do truth and consequence so construed have to do with meaning? ... Read more


3. Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Anita Burdman Feferman, Solomon Feferman
Paperback: 432 Pages (2008-04-07)
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Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His mathematical work on the concepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones of modern logic, influencing developments in philosophy, linguistics and computer science. Tarski was a charismatic teacher and zealous promoter of his view of logic as the foundation of all rational thought, a bon-vivant and a womanizer, who played the 'great man' to the hilt. Born in Warsaw in 1901 to Jewish parents, he changed his name and converted to Catholicism, but was never able to obtain a professorship in his home country. A fortuitous trip to the United States at the outbreak of war saved his life and turned his career around, even while it separated him from his family for years. By the war's end he was established as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. There Tarski built an empire in logic and methodology that attracted students and distinguished researchers from all over the world. From the cafes of Warsaw and Vienna to the mountains and deserts of California, this first full length biography places Tarski in the social, intellectual and historical context of his times and presents a frank, vivid picture of a personally and professionally passionate man, interlaced with an account of his major scientific achievements. ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars A "rigorous" biography that demonstrates that "...also very famous people can have their human defects."
John V. KaravitisI'm almost tempted not to bother writing a review of this biography, I think that a prior reviewer, Mark Robinson, did an admirable job of identifying the inherent contradiction that was the life of Alfred Tarski.Tarski was, as Leon Henkin stated at Tarski's memorial service in Berkeley, "proud, penetrating, persistent, powerful, passionate".Tarski pursued his chosen field of study, logic, with drive and focus, and he did the same with other aspects of his life:climbing mountains and chasing after female students.But reading through this exhaustingly detailed tome made me realize that Tarski was, for all his genius, a deeply flawed individual.John V. KaravitisI'm not sure if people with these character flaws are drawn to academia, or if academia makes people arrogant and out of touch with reality, or if it's a little bit of both.Tarski was a genius, and he took great care to make sure that his approach to the study of logic was full of rigor.Tarski took great pains to proselytize logic around the world, to nurture its growth and make sure that there would be "successors" who would continue his work.But on the other hand, he routinely cheated on his wife (his son Jan felt humiliated by this), typically with female graduate students for whose academic career he was responsible. Today, Tarski and UC Berkeley would have been sued for sexual harassment, and Tarski's career ended for such behavior. Tarski was also overbearing and callous in his dealings with people, especially with those closest to him.As John Corcoran noted:"He was like a Greek God...exasperating... and he was such a glory hound it was embarrassing."It's tough to reconcile these two contradictory aspects of the character of Tarski.Maybe, as has been proposed, when you're living in the "formal world" of logic, something has to "give" in the other areas of one's life.If that's the case, I John V. Karavitis pity Tarski, as I do Montague (who died under mysterious circumstances) and Godel (who died because he literally forgot to eat!).Overall this biography is very well detailed, as noted by the voluminous Notes and Bibliography sections.But it went into such great detail that one becomes bogged down, easily losing sight of the main themes of Tarski's life.The authors, a former student of Tarski's and his spouse, also include several chapters called "Interludes", in which they try to explain certain mathematical ideas that Tarski worked on.Admirable, but unless you have a background in mathematics or logic, almost impossible to follow.Overall, a decent effort, and yes, someone has put together "the definitive" biography of Tarski.But it could have been done better, with way fewer pages, and with an eye to giving us a clearer overall picture of this very complicated man.Quality over quantity, even when you're aiming for "rigor"!John V. Karavitis

5-0 out of 5 stars The most interesting biography of a mathematician that I have ever read
This book demolishes absurd myths about mathematicians, that they are dull in personality, possess mechanistic minds and exhibit little in the manner of emotion. Alfred Tarski was one of the greatest mathematical minds of the twentieth century and in many ways he was also a demanding scoundrel. He openly had extra-marital affairs, even to the point where he would bring the women home to meet his wife Maria. She had to have been one of the most tolerant and understanding of souls. When Maria finally left him, it had as much to do with his domestic demands as to his sexual (mis)adventures.
Not only was Tarski fortunate in his choice of mate, he was also very lucky to have lived when he did. In the modern academic world, his constant sexual advances to his female students would have gotten him fired very quickly, which brings up another irony. In the middle of the twentieth century, the expression of homosexuality was grounds for termination and ridicule, the authors are very clear about the activities of some of the gay friends of Tarski. One was even robbed once and then murdered later as a consequence of being gay. Yet, Tarski was free to seduce females with impunity, as he made no secret of his actions. At the start of the twenty-first century, expressing homosexuality is accepted and any sexual activity between a professor and student is grounds for termination.
The authors have used an effective structure in creating this book. The passages containing the heavy mathematics have chapter headings called interludes and the biographical sections are given specific titles. This allows the reader with little experience in logic to avoid the heavy mental lifting.
Alfred Tarski was a genius and very lucky in many ways, most specifically in his choice of wife. He also lived at a time when sex with your students was at least a tolerated perk of being a professor. Arrogant, cranky, opinionated and adored, he cut a swath through the mathematical community that will keep him remembered as long as mathematics is practiced and studied. A blunt and accurate biography, this book depicts Tarski as thoroughly Polish, brilliant, an egomaniac, a lifelong drug user, tolerant of "alternative" lifestyles and as both a positive and negative role model. It is the most entertaining biography of a mathematician that I have ever read.

5-0 out of 5 stars Mathematics & Life
Fabulous!Alfred Tarski was one of the two greatest mathematical logicians of the twentieth century. (The other was Kurt Gödel.)Solomon Feferman, a student of Tarki's in the early fifties and a friend for over twenty years throughout the rest of Tarski's life, is himself one of most outstanding logicians of our day. Anita Feferman, Solomon Feferman's wife, is the author of the tremendously exciting biography of the logician and bodyguard to Leon Trotsky, Jean van Heijenoort: "From Trotsky to Gödel".(I know it's difficult to believe that a logician could also have been Trotsky's bodyguard; her book must be read to be believed!)
Clearly, this Tarski biography is a labor of love. I completely agree with those reviewers who have explained in detail why this book reads in places more like an exciting novel than a mere biography. What I found very impressive was the beautiful, delicate balance of the book between Tarski's mathematical accomplishments on the one hand and the daily features of his personal life on the other. He was not just a mathematician but rather a force of nature, a tornado, who swept everyone around him in his wake. Students, other mathematicians, university administrators, friends, colleagues, and especially women were all pulled into his mathematical and personal whirlwind.
No praise would be excessive for this outstanding book!

5-0 out of 5 stars Intriguing story - far beyond my expectation!
To be honest, I started reading this book with some suspicion.In the first place, I was neither a fan of Tarski nor of S.Feferman.Though I did regard Tarski as one of the intellectual giants in the 20th century, I still frowned at the book's opening description of him as one of the "greatest" logicians of all time - on a par with my own hero Godel.My feeling towards S.Feferman was similarly ambivalent.In spite of his substantial contribution as the editor-in-chief of Godel's Collected Works and the universal praise he has received for that project, its end-result (the project was abandoned for running out of supports in 2005) is seriously lacking.For one thing, after almost 30 years' work the huge bulk of Godel's Nachlass in Gabelsberger (an almost extinct German shorthand) has been left unpublished (although approximately half of it has already been transcripted).It seems that more emphasis had been given by the editors and their colleague commentators on INTERPRETING Godel rather than making the inaccessible original material available to the wider public.I have always doubted the wisdom of Feferman's chief-editorship on this and other issues

Nevertheless, Feferman turns out to be a much more successful co-biographer of Tarski than an editor of Godel.The Tarski book goes far beyond my expectation.I simply couldn't put it down and went without sleeps for several nights until my eyes could no longer tolerate my indulgence.The reading has made Tarski an immensely more interesting figure to me - almost as interesting and intriguing as the enigmatic Godel.This aftermath is something which I could never have anticipated in my wildest dreams beforehand.

Since I agree with much of the praises from the Amazon Editorial and Customer Reviews of the book, I don't think it desirable to re-enumerate the book's various merits which others have already done.Needless to say, the book is not perfect and leaves much that is desired unaccounted.For one thing, although the book does present an interesting picture of the development of logic in the last century, it is presented from the Fefermans' highly personalized viewpoint and very one-sided.For example, from the book the reader will only get a very uninformed idea of the development of set theory which happens to be both Tarski's lifelong "hobby" and a source of intellectual uneasiness since he had a certain (though ambivalent perhaps, for he sometimes spoke in a Platonist tone) nominalist temperament while set theory is prima facie concerned with highly transfinite objects and often pursued by pronounced "realists" like Cantor, Zermelo, Godel (who was in effect described insane when Tarski declared himself as "the greatest living sane logician" ) et al.It is arguable that similar tension should also occur in Model Theory where Tarski reigned.But there is no discussion on this issue.It will also be interesting to know how Tarski reacted towards the epoch-making invention of forcing by P.Cohen in 1963, when the former was still an active researcher.The Fefermans say almost nothing on this either, although S.Feferman himself was one of the earliest developers of forcing immediately after Cohen.My own conjecture is that, like Godel, Tarski did not take forcing to be FUNDAMENTAL.Godel almost had a proof of the independence of the axiom of choice in the 1940s, but he abandoned the project partly because he did not want to encourage other logicians to plunge into a pursuit of independence proofs instead of trying to discover and develop new, further TRUE axioms of mathematics.Presumably the nominalist (by lips?) Tarski will perceive the issue very differently from the Platonist Godel.Yet the book gives us little clues about such and various other issues.

Paradoxically, it is precisely from the frankly personalized and unsystematic viewpoints of the Fefermans and other intimates of Tarski that we find much that is valuable.Moreover, unlike the Godel case, the authors did not forget to let the protagonist to present himself.And in spite of its moderate length and lack of comprehensiveness the book does manage to weave abundant insights into their captivating story of this intriguing man who is, given all his unconventional acts and deeds notwithstanding, first and foremost "powered by his ideas" (as Peter Hoffman puts it) with an extraordinary self-confidence throughout his life.It is amidst this web of insights that we are granted some of those very rare glimpses into the mind of a genius that so few biographers have ever accomplished.

3-0 out of 5 stars truth is in the eye of the phd student!?
unlike all the previous praises this book seems to have gotten, i was not impressed by it. the book is an account of tarski the academician as seen/experienced by his phd students one of whom is the co-author himself.

the book is an account of tarski's academic life which is apparently believed to be best reflected through his students' eyes. this account fails to put in anything else. even what his son and daughter have to say is missing for the most part. there are many things which go unexplained or unquestioned:
1. why was tarski so much into nature?
2. why was he obsessed with rigor and formality? just stating an observation and looking for the reasons of that observation makes the difference between a fact telling book on the verge of being a mere factoid and an intriguing/enriching one. this book is unfortunately as shallow as can be when it comes to some psychological assessments.
3. why was tarski a womanizer? was he really that or did he like portraying himself as one?
4. was he a tyrant and if so, why?

the authors make a huge deal out of the fact that he was a jew. can it be that this whole emphasis on his religious and ethnic origin is anachronic in nature? maybe he just did not care, really. why did he choose catholicism? just because? or was he so ambitious that he did not really have any ground rules at all? in the end, these questions all go unanswered.

giving 5 stars for such a shallow book is unwarranted and is an unjust blow to some successful biographies such as the enigma (about alan turing) crafted by andrew hodges. ... Read more


4. Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938
by Alfred Tarski
Hardcover: 536 Pages (1983-12)
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This title contains the only complete English-language text of "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages". Tarski made extensive corrections and revisions of the original translations for this edition, along with new historical remarks. It includes a new preface and a new analytical index for use by philosophers and linguists as well as by historians of mathematics and philosophy. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Truth and ConsequenceBoth Defined in One Book
This book collects seventeen classic papers on logic, semantics, and metamathematics authored or co-authored by the late Alfred Tarski (1901-1983), who is considered to be one of the five greatest logicians of all time (the others being Aristotle, Boole, Frege, and Gdel).Tarski is as famous for his contributions to philosophy as for his contributions to mathematics.His most important contributions to philosophy are two definitions in which he proposes characterizations of concepts that are central to our understanding of the axiomatic method and, more generally, of rationality.In 1933 he published an essay in Polish giving a mathematically precise definition of TRUTH and building the axiomatic foundations on which this definition rests.This truth-definition paper, which has been translated into many languages, may well be the most important paper in philosophical semantics, if not in analytic philosophy broadly considered. This article alone is worth the price of the book. Its 120-page length qualifies it to be regarded as a monograph, not just as an article.It has spawned a huge literature and it continues to be studied not only as an historic breakthrough paper but also as a source of fresh ideas.A revised and corrected version of a 1956 English translation of the truth-definition paper appears in this book in its entirety.In 1936 he wrote two 10-page papers sketching a mathematically precise definition of logical CONSEQUENCE (needed to define validity of arguments), one in German for international readers and one in his native Polish.This book contains an English translation of the German version.This is the only publication of the English translation of the entire Tarski truth-definition paper and it is also the only publication of the original English translation of the German-language consequence-definition paper.Tarski's definitions of truth and of consequence employ the tools of modern mathematical logic in order to characterize classically accepted concepts.They were not intended to displace classical concepts with modern constructions.Accordingly both are based on comprehensive knowledge of the relevant parts of Western philosophy going back to Aristotle and on a deep appreciation of modern mathematics, a field to which Tarski had already made important contributions on his own and in collaboration with acknowledged masters such as Banach and Kuratowski.As Tarski emphasizes in his 1969 "Scientific American" article "Truth and Proof", just as truth, which is ontic and objective, is a precondition for proof (or demonstrative knowledge), which is epistemic and to an extent subjective, consequence is an ontic and objective precondition for inference, which like proof is epistemic and inescapably subjective.Without an understanding of truth and consequence it is impossible to understand proof.Included is an editor's introduction indicating "how Tarski's development of the conceptual framework of the methodology of deductive science can be traced through the articles in this volume". The volume ends with a nearly forty-page analytical index which greatly facilitates use of this work as a reference book on logical terminology. ... Read more


5. Undecidable Theories: Studies in Logic and the Foundation of Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Alfred Tarski, Andrzej Mostowski, Raphael M. Robinson
Paperback: 112 Pages (2010-08-19)
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This book is well known for its proof that many mathematical systems — including lattice theory and closure algebras — are undecidable. It consists of three treatises from one of the greatest logicians of all time: "A General Method in Proofs of Undecidability," "Undecidability and Essential Undecidability in Mathematics," and "Undecidability of the Elementary Theory of Groups."
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6. Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle: Austro-Polish Connections in Logical Empiricism (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook)
 Paperback: 356 Pages (2010-11-02)
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The larger part of Yearbook 6 of the Institute ViennaCircle constitutes the proceedings of a symposium on Alfred Tarski andhis influence on and interchanges with the Vienna Circle, especiallythose on and with Rudolf Carnap and Kurt Gödel. It is the firsttime that this topic has been treated on such a scale and in suchdepth. Attention is mainly paid to the origins, development andsubsequent role of Tarski's definition of truth. Some contributionsare primarily historical, others analyze logical aspects of theconcept of truth. Contributors include Anita and Saul Feferman, JanWolenski, Jan Tarski and Hans Sluga. Several Polish logicianscontributed: Gzegorczyk, Wójcicki, Murawski and Rojszczak. Thevolume presents entirely new biographical material on Tarski, bothfrom his Polish period and on his influential career in the UnitedStates: at Harvard, in Princeton, at Hunter, and at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. The high point of the analysis involvesTarski's influence on Carnap's evolution from a narrow syntacticalview of language, to the ontologically more sophisticated but morecontroversial semantical view. Another highlight involves theinterchange between Tarski and Gödel on the connection betweentruth and proof and on the nature of metalanguages.
The concluding part of Yearbook 6 includes documentation, bookreviews and a summary of current activities of the Institute ViennaCircle. Jan Tarski introduces letters written by his father toGödel; Paolo Parrini reports on the Vienna Circle's influence inItaly; several reviews cover recent books on logical empiricism, onGödel, on cosmology, on holistic approaches in Germany, and onMauthner. ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars BIBLIOGRAPHIC FLAW
The author Gerhard Shurz cites the 1956 first edition of Alfred Tarski's LOGIC, SEMANTICS, METAMATHEMATICS that has been out-of-print for nearly fifty years and that contains hundreds of errors since corrected by Tarski in the second edition.
Tarski, A. 1956/1983. LOGIC, SEMANTICS, METAMATHEMATICS, second edition revised and corrected by Tarski with new introduction and new analytic index by J. Corcoran, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis (1983). Originally published by Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.MR85e:01065. This book contains the complete English translation of the famous truth-definition paper "Der Wahrheitsbegriff" (The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages).
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7. A Formalization of Set Theory without Variables (Colloquium Publications (Amer Mathematical Soc))
by Alfred Tarski and Steven Givant
Paperback: 318 Pages (1987-12-31)
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Completed in 1983, this work culminates nearly half a century of the late Alfred Tarski's foundational studies in logic, mathematics, and the philosophy of science. Written in collaboration with Steven Givant, the book appeals to a very broad audience, and requires only a familiarity with first-order logic. It is of great interest to logicians and mathematicians interested in the foundations of mathematics, but also to philosophers interested in logic, semantics, algebraic logic, or the methodology of the deductive sciences, and to computer scientists interested in developing very simple computer languages rich enough for mathematical and scientific applications. The authors show that set theory and number theory can be developed within the framework of a new, different, and simple equational formalism, closely related to the formalism of the theory of relation algebras. There are no variables, quantifiers, or sentential connectives. Predicates are constructed from two atomic binary predicates (which denote the relations of identity and set-theoretic membership) by repeated applications of four operators that are analogues of the well-known operations of relative product, conversion, Boolean addition, and complementation. All mathematical statements are expressed as equations between predicates. There are ten logical axiom schemata and just one rule of inference: the one of replacing equals by equals, familiar from high school algebra. Though such a simple formalism may appear limited in its powers of expression and proof, this book proves quite the opposite. The authors show that it provides a framework for the formalization of practically all known systems of set theory, and hence for the development of all classical mathematics. The book contains numerous applications of the main results to diverse areas of foundational research: propositional logic; semantics; first-order logics with finitely many variables; definability and axiomatizability questions in set theory, Peano arithmetic, and real number theory; representation and decision problems in the theory of relation algebras; and decision problems in equational logic. ... Read more


8. Introduction a la logique.
by Alfred Tarski
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9. Ordinal Algebras (Studies In Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics)
by Alfred Tarski
 Paperback: 133 Pages (1956)

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10. Einfuhrung in die mathematische Logik (MODERNE MATHEMATIK) (German Edition)
by Tarski Alfred
Paperback: 285 Pages (1977-06-12)
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11. Proceedings of the Tarski Symposium (Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Vol 25)
 Hardcover: 498 Pages (1990-02)
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12. Das Wahrheitsproblem und die Idee der Semantik: Eine Einfuhrung in die Theorien von A. Tarski und R. Carnap (German Edition)
by Wolfgang Stegmuller
 Hardcover: 328 Pages (1977)

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13. Kunstliche und naturliche Sprache: Bemerkungen zur Semantik bei Tarski und Wittgenstein (Philosophische Texte und Studien) (German Edition)
by Martin Scherb
 Paperback: 90 Pages (1992)

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14. Alfred Tarski
Paperback: 140 Pages (2010-08-10)
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Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1901, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a Polish logician and mathematician. Educated in the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of California,Berkeley, from 1942 until his death.A prolific author best known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic, he also contributed to abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory,and analytic philosophy.He is regarded as perhaps one of the four greatest logicians of all time, matched only by Aristotle, Kurt Gödel,and Gottlob Frege. His biographers Anita and Solomon Feferman state that, "Along with his contemporary, Kurt Gödel, he changed the face of logic in the twentieth century, especially through his work on the concept of truth and the theory of models. ... Read more


15. Polish Logicians: Alfred Tarski, Chaïm Perelman, Jerzy Giedymin, Czeslaw Lejewski, Jan Lukasiewicz, Kazimierz Twardowski, Emil Leon Post
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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alfred Tarski, Chaïm Perelman, Jerzy Giedymin, Czesław Lejewski, Jan Łukasiewicz, Kazimierz Twardowski, Emil Leon Post, Stanisław Leśniewski, Leon Chwistek, Tomek Bartoszyński, Józef Maria Bocheński, Stanisław Jaśkowski, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Zygmunt Zawirski, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Andrzej Mostowski, Jerzy Perzanowski, Tadeusz Czeżowski, Adolf Lindenbaum, Jerzy Łoś, Mojżesz Presburger. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1901, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a Polish logician and mathematician. Educated at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic and the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1942 until his death. A prolific author best known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic, he also contributed to abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy. Tarski's student Robert Vaught ranked Tarski as one of the four greatest logicians of all time, along with Aristotle, Kurt Gödel, and Gottlob Frege, although Tarski himself expressed great admiration for Charles Sanders Peirce. His biographers Anita and Solomon Feferman state that, "Along with his contemporary, Kurt Gödel, he changed the face of logic in the twentieth century, especially through his work on the concept of truth and the theory of models." Alfred Tarski was born Alfred Teitelbaum (Polish spelling: "Tajtelbaum"), to parents who were Polish Jews in comfortable circumstances. He first manifested his mathematical abilities while in secondary school, at Warsaw's Szkoa M...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=59920 ... Read more


16. Personnalité Polonaise: Vladislav Branicki, Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Marek Kaminski, Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, Alfred Tarski (French Edition)
 Paperback: 184 Pages (2010-08-05)
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Vladislav Branicki, Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Marek Kamiński, Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, Alfred Tarski, Leopold Trepper, Première Dame de Pologne, Jerzy Giedymin, Dorota Masłowska, Salomon Morel, Jan Łukasiewicz, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Anna Walentynowicz, Leszek Engelking, Bona Sforza, Sebastian Boenisch, Jerzy Gorgoń, Jan Woleński, Ryszard Bartel, Jean Tarnowski, Tadeusz Rydzyk, Leszek Kołakowski, Zbigniew Dłubak, Kazimierz Twardowski, Stanisław de Skarbimierz, Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski, Antoni Berezowski, Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski, Joseph Chodzko, Jan Klemens Branicki, Józef Andrzej Załuski, Czartoryski, Jean de Bloch, Józef Zajączek, Wacław Berent, Adam Schaff, Wanda, Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski, Boleslas Matuszewski, Kazimierz Nowak, Itzhak Stern, Piotr Cywiński, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Jerzy Prokopiuk, Karol Kurpiński, Leopold Kronenberg, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Balthasar Behem, Bohdan Winiarski, Aleksander Kamiński, Tadeusz Czacki, Miliza Korjus, Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum, Maximilian Von Sandt, Wojciech Bogusławski, Władysław Broniewski, Roman Malek, Stanisław Kochowicz, Stanisław Wycech, Adam Asnyk, Tadeusz Gajcy, Anne Leszczynska, Zdzislaw L. Sadowski. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Le comte Vladislav Ksavierovitch Branicki, (en langue polonaise : Wladyslaw-Grzegorz Branicki), (En langue russe : Vladislav Ksavierovitch Branitski - Владислав Ксавьерьeвич Браницкий), né le 13 février 1783 à Saint-Pétersbourg, décédé le 15 août 1843 à Varsovie, est un aristocrate d'origine polonaise, sujet de l'Empire russe. Il fut commandant de l'Armée impériale de Russie au cours des Guerres napoléoniennes, major-général, conseiller privé, sénateur. Fils de Franciszek Ks...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more


17. Mathématicien Polonais: Stanislaw Lesniewski, Edward Kofler, Alfred Tarski, Stefan Banach, Jan Lukasiewicz, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Marian Rejewski (French Edition)
Paperback: 80 Pages (2010-08-03)
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Stanisław Leśniewski, Edward Kofler, Alfred Tarski, Stefan Banach, Jan Łukasiewicz, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Marian Rejewski, Piotr Kowalski, Wacław Sierpiński, Cecilia Krieger, Witold Hurewicz, Salomon Bochner, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Stanisław Saks, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Jan Śniadecki, Henryk Zygalski, Hermann Amandus Schwarz, Jerzy Różycki, Andrzej Mostowski, Hugo Steinhaus, Karol Borsuk, Mojzesz Presburger. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Stanisław Leśniewski (30 mars 1886-13 mai 1939) est un mathématicien, philosophe et logicien polonais qui a contribué à créer et développer l'École de Lvov-Varsovie. Leśniewski est l'une des plus remarquables personnalités scientifiques dans l'histoire de la logique, et appartient à la première génération de l'École de Lvov-Varsovie fondée par Kazimierz Twardowski. Avec Jan Łukasiewicz (créateur de la notation dite polonaise inverse) et Alfred Tarski, qui fut son seul docteur, il forma une troïka qui, durant les décennies 1920 et 1930 firent de Université de Varsovie l'un plus importants centres de recherche de logique mathématique au monde. Ses contributions les plus importantes furent la construction des trois systèmes formels interdépendants que sont la protothétique, l'Ontologie et la méréologie auxquels ils donna des noms d'étymologie grecque. Stanisław Leśniewski est né à Serpoukhov en Russie le 30 mars 1886. Sous la direction du philosophe polonais Kazimierz Twardowski, il présenta en 1912 une thèse de doctorat intitulée Une contribution à l'analyse des propositions existentielles, en partie dirigée contre la thèse de Brentano selon laquelle toute proposition catégorique peut être réduite à une proposition existentielle. Leśniewski s'e...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more


18. Polish Atheists: Stanislaw Lem, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Leszek Miller, Alfred Tarski, Boleslaw Bierut, Witold Gombrowicz, Aleksander Kwasniewski
 Paperback: 260 Pages (2010-09-15)
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Chapters: Stanisław Lem, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Leszek Miller, Alfred Tarski, Bolesław Bierut, Witold Gombrowicz, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Rutka Laskier, Waldemar Pawlak, Jacek Kuroń, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Władysław Gomułka, Mieczysław Moczar, Stanislav Poplavsky, Karol Świerczewski, Calel Perechodnik, Bruno Jasieński, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Feliks Kon, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Edward Gierek, Czesław Kiszczak, Jerzy Urban, Zbigniew Religa, Helena Wolińska-Brus, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Wanda Wasilewska, Kazimierz Kutz, Piotr Jaroszewicz, Mieczysław Rakowski, Marian Spychalski, Joanna Senyszyn, Marek Borowski, Krystyna Łybacka, Marceli Nowotko, Marek Rocki, Stanisław Kania, Adam Gierek, Edward Ochab, Edward Babiuch, Tadeusz Iwiński, Julian Marchlewski, Stanisław Grzesiuk, Adrian Kowanek, Sławomir Sierakowski, Hilary Minc, Roman Werfel, Józef Pińkowski, Jerzy Wenderlich, Adam Rapacki, Jerzy Czeszejko-Sochacki, Aleksander Zawadzki, Kuba Wojewódzki, Florian Siwicki, Adolf Warski, Piotr Gadzinowski, Adam Szejnfeld, Julian Leszczyński, Robert Biedroń, Maria Koszutska, Henryk Walecki, Lech Janerka. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 259. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stanisaw Lem (Polish pronunciation: ; 12 September 1921 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire . He was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle . His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26790 ... Read more


19. University of Warsaw Alumni: Frédéric Chopin, Menachem Begin, Waclaw Sierpinski, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Alfred Tarski, Witold Gombrowicz
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Chapters: Frédéric Chopin, Menachem Begin, Wacław Sierpiński, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Alfred Tarski, Witold Gombrowicz, Janusz Zajdel, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Yitzhak Shamir, Bolesław Prus, Leonid Hurwicz, Roman Dmowski, Zygmunt Bauman, Lech Kaczyński, Joseph Rotblat, Ryszard Kapuściński, Adam Michnik, Jan Karski, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Bronisław Geremek, Leszek Kołakowski, Jacek Kuroń, Maja Trochimczyk, Kazimierz Żorawski, Julian Tuwim, Jerzy Szacki, Alpha Oumar Konaré, Tadeusz Borowski, Jan T. Gross, Robert Kowalski, Kornel Morawiecki, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Ludwik Popławski, Bohdan Paczyński, Jan Olszewski, Tom R. Burns, Longin Pastusiak, Edward Kossoy, Jan Łukasiewicz, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Wanda Wasilewska, Zygmunt Rumel, Đuro Kurepa, Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, Samuel Eilenberg, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Stanisław Leśniewski, Joseph Epstein, Jan Brzechwa, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Krzysztof Zanussi, Aleksander Szczygło, Włodzimierz Kuperberg, Adam Dziewonski, Antoni Zygmund, Stanisław Saks, Maciej Zembaty, Andrzej Czuma, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Jan Wejchert, Krystyna Kuperberg, Stanisław Kuczborski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Ludwik Dorn, Marek Kotański, Zdzisław Najder, Adam Przeworski, Aleksandra Ziółkowska Boehm, Krzysztof Zaleski, Karol Borsuk, Adolf Berman, Bolesław Piasecki, Kazimierz Michałowski, Tomek Bartoszyński, Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski, Stanisław Jaśkowski, Tadeusz Iwiński, Jenia Taversky, Raman Skirmunt, Kazimierz Sikorski, Paweł Machcewicz, Małgorzata Bocheńska, Yosef Shofman, Andrzej Celiński, Ze'ev Herring, Eliyahu Meridor, Kazimierz Zarankiewicz, Daniel Passent, Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, Ryszard Czerniawski, Shalom Zisman, Roman Wapiński, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Józef H. Przytycki, Walter Dana, Georg Wannagat, Dimitrie Botgros, Andrzej Mostowski, Aleksander Kamiński, Wojciech Wierzejski, Janusz Minkiewicz, Tomasz Nałęcz, Witold Zawadowski, A...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10823 ... Read more


20. Introduction to logic and to the methodology of deductive sciences / Alfred Tarski
 Unknown Binding: 239 Pages (1949)

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