an Introduction to Contemporary Mathematical Logic /
by Bruno Poizat.
New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2000.
1 online resource (xxxi, 443 pages)
Universitext,
0172-5939
1 Elementary Classes of Relations -- The Language Associated with a Relation -- 3 Extensions of the Language: Structures -- 4 Compactness -- 5 The Back-and-Forth Method in?-Saturated Models -- 6 Examples Illustrating the Back-and-Forth Method -- 7 Arithmetic -- 8 Ordinals and Cardinals -- 9 Saturated Models -- 10 Prime Models -- 11 Heirs -- 12 Special Sons, Morley Sequences -- 13 The Fundamental Order -- 14 Stability and Saturated Models -- 15 Forking -- 16 Strong Types -- 17 Notions of Rank -- 18 Stability and Prime Models -- 19 Stability, Indiscernible Sequences and Weights -- 20 Dimension in Models of a Totally Transcendental Theory -- Index of Notation.
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This book, translated from the French, is an introduction to first-order model theory. The first six chapters are very basic: starting from scratch, they quickly reach the essential, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness, which are illustrated with examples taken from algebra. The next chapter introduces logic via the study of the models of arithmetic, and the following is a combinatorial tool-box preparing for the chapters on saturated and prime models. The last ten chapters form a rather complete but nevertheless accessible exposition of stability theory, which is the core of the subject.