Introduction to Boolean Algebras
Book Details:
Publisher: | Springer |
Series: |
Springer
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Author: | P. R. Halmos |
Edition: | 1 |
ISBN-10: | 0387402934 |
ISBN-13: | 9780387402932 |
Pages: | 574 |
Published: | Dec 02 2008 |
Posted: | Apr 11 2015 |
Language: | English |
Book format: | PDF |
Book size: | 5.03 MB |
Book Description:
The theory of Boolean algebras was created in 1847 by the English mat- matician George Boole. He conceived it as a calculus (or arithmetic) suitable for a mathematical analysis of logic. The form of his calculus was rather di?erent from the modern version, which came into being during the - riod 18641895 through the contributions of William Stanley Jevons, Aug- tus De Morgan, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Ernst Schr oder. A foundation of the calculus as an abstract algebraic discipline, axiomatized by a set of equations, and admitting many di?erent interpretations, was carried out by Edward Huntington in 1904. Only with the work of Marshall Stone and Alfred Tarski in the 1930s, however, did Boolean algebra free itself completely from the bonds of logic and become a modern mathematical discipline, with deep theorems and - portantconnections toseveral otherbranchesofmathematics, includingal- bra,analysis, logic, measuretheory, probability andstatistics, settheory, and topology. For instance, in logic, beyond its close connection to propositional logic, Boolean algebra has found applications in such diverse areas as the proof of the completeness theorem for ?rst-order logic, the proof of the Lo s conjecture for countable ?rst-order theories categorical in power, and proofs of the independence of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis ? in set theory. In analysis, Stones discoveries of the StoneCech compac- ?cation and the StoneWeierstrass approximation theorem were intimately connected to his study of Boolean algebras.
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