Mathematical Logic

"Based on the authors' extensive teaching, and assuming no previous study in logic, this informal yet rigorous text covers the material of a standard undergraduate first course in mathematical logic. At each stage of the text new methods and concepts are introduced intuitively in terms of actual mathematical practice, and subsequently developed with clean formal mathematics. Practical examples are given for each idea as it is introduced, and extensive end of section exercises help consolidate the material. Solutions to many of the exercises are presented in an appendix."--BOOK JACKET.

Ian Chiswell acheived a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1973 on the Bass-Serre theory of groups acting on trees. After three years as a temporary lecturer at the University of Birmingham he moved back to Queen Mary, University of London in 1976. His teaching experience dates back to 1968 when he was a teaching fellow at the University of Michigan. He spent the academic year 1972-73 in Germany at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum. He has published a monograph on lamda-trees, which are generalisations of ordinary trees. His work has connections with mathematical logic, mainly via non-standard free groups. Wilfrid Hodges achieved his DPhil at Oxford in 1970 for a thesis in model theory (mathematical logic). He has taught mathematics at London University for nearly forty years, first at Bedford College and then at Queen Mary, and also taught for visiting years in Los Angeles and Boulder (USA). Besides this book, he has four other textbooks of logic in print, at levels ranging from popular to research. He has served as president of the British Logic Colloquium and the European Association for Logic, Language and Information, and as vice-president of the London Mathematical Society.