Algebraic Foundations of Many-Valued Reasoning

Algebraic Foundations of Many-Valued Reasoning
ISBN-10
9401594805
ISBN-13
9789401594806
Category
Mathematics
Pages
233
Language
English
Published
2013-03-09
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
R.L. Cignoli, Itala M. d'Ottaviano, Daniele Mundici

Description

This unique textbook states and proves all the major theorems of many-valued propositional logic and provides the reader with the most recent developments and trends, including applications to adaptive error-correcting binary search. The book is suitable for self-study, making the basic tools of many-valued logic accessible to students and scientists with a basic mathematical knowledge who are interested in the mathematical treatment of uncertain information. Stressing the interplay between algebra and logic, the book contains material never before published, such as a simple proof of the completeness theorem and of the equivalence between Chang's MV algebras and Abelian lattice-ordered groups with unit - a necessary prerequisite for the incorporation of a genuine addition operation into fuzzy logic. Readers interested in fuzzy control are provided with a rich deductive system in which one can define fuzzy partitions, just as Boolean partitions can be defined and computed in classical logic. Detailed bibliographic remarks at the end of each chapter and an extensive bibliography lead the reader on to further specialised topics.

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