>From: Listserv@pupress.princeton.edu
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>Subject: New From Princeton University Press - The Birth of Model Theory
>Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:22:46 -0500
>
>We are pleased to send you the following information about this
>newly published book:
>
>The Birth of Model Theory
>Lowenheim's Theorem in the Frame of the Theory of Relatives
>Calixto Badesa
>
>To read a sample chapter, please visit:
>http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7795.html
>
> Lowenheim's theorem reflects a critical point in the
>history of mathematical logic, for it marks the birth of
>model theory--that is, the part of logic that concerns the
>relationship between formal theories and their models.
>However, while the original proofs of other, comparably
>significant theorems are well understood, this is not the
>case with Lowenheim's theorem. For example, the very result
>that scholars attribute to Lowenheim today is not the one
>that Skolem--a logician raised in the algebraic tradition,
>like Lowenheim--appears to have attributed to him. In The
>Birth of Model Theory, Calixto Badesa provides both the
>first sustained, book--length analysis of Lowenheim's proof
>and a detailed description of the theoretical
>framework--and, in particular, of the algebraic
>tradition--that made the theorem possible.
>
>To read the entire book description, go to:
>http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7795.html
>
>0-691-05853-9 Cloth $49.95 US and L32.95
>256 pages. 6 x 9.
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