Classical & Nonclassical Logics,
August 2005, Princeton University
Press.
Classical logic is just one of the many
kinds of reasoning present in everyday thought;
when presented by itself -- as in most
introductory texts on logic -- it seems arbitrary and unnatural
to students new to the subject. CNL contrasts several
logics, thereby illuminating all of them.
No external reviews are available yet, but
two of P.U.P.'s internal reviewers said
"It will be a valuable addition to the literature,
especially as some of the topics covered have long been
the preserve of specialists,"
and
"the exposition is solid and successfully clarifies topics that traditionally are difficult to understand by a novice. ...
The author shows that he has great ability to lucidly describe complicated ideas in various schools of logic."
Handbook of
Analysis & its Foundations
(paper 1996, CD 1999), Academic Press.
If a mathematical object is not constructible,
we should say so; the student who is unable to visualize
some object will be reassured upon hearing that no one
else can visualize it either.
S.I.A.M. Review
called this book
"daring
and innovative," and
also said:
"Every once in a while a book comes along that so
effectively redefines an educational enterprise -- in
this case, graduate mathematical training -- and so
effectively reexamines the hegemony of ideas prevailing
in a discipline -- in this case, mathematical analysis --
that it deserves our careful attention. This is such a
book. There is nothing else remotely similar to
it in any of the current books on integration,
real analysis, set theory, or any other related subject. ..."
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continues]
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