Ebook: Introduction to model theory
Author: Rothmaler Philipp.
- Tags: Model theory
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Edition: First edition.
- Language: English
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Model theory investigates mathematical structures by means of formal languages. So-called first-order languages have proved particularly useful in this respect.This text introduces the model theory of first-order logic, avoiding syntactical issues not too relevant to model theory. In this spirit, the compactness theorem is proved via the algebraically useful ultrsproduct technique (rather than via the completeness Read more...