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A Course in Model Theory : An Introduction to Contemporary Mathematical Logic
A Course in Model Theory An Introduction to Contemporary Mathematical Logic Author:Bruno Poizat This book, translated from the French, is an introduction to first-order model theory. The first six chapters are very basic: starting from scratch, they quickly reach the essential, namely, the back-and-forth method and compactness, which are illustrated with examples taken from algebra. The next chapter introduces logic via the study of the mo... more »dels of arithmetic, and the following is a combinatorial tool-box preparing for the chapters on saturated and prime models. The last ten chapters form a rather complete but nevertheless accessible exposition of stability theory, which is the core of the subject.« less