This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper studies the expressive power that an extra first order quantifier adds to a fragment of monadic second order logic, extending the ...

We solve a problem of Friedman by showing the existence of a logic stronger than first-order logic even for countable models, but still satisfying the general compactness theorem, assuming e.g. the ...

Logic and geometric representations constitute an interdisciplinary framework that merges formal logical systems with spatial and diagrammatic structures. This field encompasses the study of classical ...

Shalosh B. Ekhad, the co-author of several papers in respected mathematics journals, has been known to prove with a single, succinct utterance theorems and identities that previously required pages of ...

Originally published on Sept. 25, 2018. In a world of divisive politics, rhetoric and debate, author Eugenia Cheng has the secret to winning an argument: mathematical logic. Cheng, a mathematician and ...

One night in July, 1964, the logician Lotfi Zadeh found himself alone in his parents’ New York apartment, his dinner plans cancelled. At the time, Zadeh later wrote, he was doing “a lot of thinking ...