Closure Spaces and Logic

This book examines an abstract mathematical theory, placing special emphasis on results applicable to formal logic. If a theory is especially abstract, it may find a natural home within several of the more familiar branches of mathematics. This is the case with the theory of closure spaces. It might...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Martin, N.M., Pollard, S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Mathematics and Its Applications
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02557nmm a2200313 u 4500
001 EB000631090
003 EBX01000000000000000484172
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 140122 ||| eng
020 |a 9781475725063 
100 1 |a Martin, N.M. 
245 0 0 |a Closure Spaces and Logic  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c by N.M. Martin, S. Pollard 
250 |a 1st ed. 1996 
260 |a New York, NY  |b Springer US  |c 1996, 1996 
300 |a XVIII, 230 p  |b online resource 
505 0 |a 1 Logic and Topology -- 2 Basic Topological Properties -- 3 Some Theorems of Tarski -- 4 Continuous Functions -- 5 Homeomorphisms -- 6 Closed Bases and Closure Semantics I -- 7 Theory of Complete Lattices -- 8 Closed Bases and Closure Semantics II -- 9 Truth Functions 
653 |a Mathematical logic 
653 |a Logic 
653 |a Topology 
653 |a Mathematical Logic and Foundations 
700 1 |a Pollard, S.  |e [author] 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b SBA  |a Springer Book Archives -2004 
490 0 |a Mathematics and Its Applications 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-1-4757-2506-3 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2506-3?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 511.3 
520 |a This book examines an abstract mathematical theory, placing special emphasis on results applicable to formal logic. If a theory is especially abstract, it may find a natural home within several of the more familiar branches of mathematics. This is the case with the theory of closure spaces. It might be considered part of topology, lattice theory, universal algebra or, no doubt, one of several other branches of mathematics as well. In our development we have treated it, conceptually and methodologically, as part of topology, partly because we first thought ofthe basic structure involved (closure space), as a generalization of Frechet's concept V-space. V-spaces have been used in some developments of general topology as a generalization of topological space. Indeed, when in the early '50s, one of us started thinking about closure spaces, we thought ofit as the generalization of Frechet V­ space which comes from not requiring the null set to be CLOSURE SPACES ANDLOGIC XlI closed(as it is in V-spaces). This generalization has an extreme advantage in connection with application to logic, since the most important closure notion in logic, deductive closure, in most cases does not generate a V-space, since the closure of the null set typically consists of the "logical truths" of the logic being examined