Logic, Semantics, Mathematics. Papers from 1923 to 1938.
TARSKI Alfred (1956.)
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Translated by J.H. Woodger. First edition. 8vo. xii, 471, [1] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise a near fine, notably bright copy). Oxford, At the Clarendon Press.
A collection bringing together the principal early papers by the mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski, the majority of which had been originally published in Polish or German, including his seminal monograph 'The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages'.
Alfred Tarski was one of the leading philosophers of logic and mathematics of the twentieth century, who together with Kurt Gödel, 'changed the face of logic in the twentieth century, especially through his work on the concept of truth and the theory of models' (Feferman).
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