Model Theory of Fields (Lecture Notes in Logic, Series Number 5) - Hardcover

Marker, David; Messmer, Margit; Pillay, Anand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107168074 ISBN 13: 9781107168077

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Since their inception, the Perspectives in Logic and Lecture Notes in Logic series have published seminal works by leading logicians. Many of the original books in the series have been unavailable for years, but they are now in print once again. In this volume, the fifth publication in the Lecture Notes in Logic series, the authors give an insightful introduction to the fascinating subject of the model theory of fields, concentrating on its connections to stability theory. In the first two chapters David Marker gives an overview of the model theory of algebraically closed, real closed and differential fields. In the third chapter Anand Pillay gives a proof that there are 2א non-isomorphic countable differential closed fields. Finally, Margit Messmer gives a survey of the model theory of separably closed fields of characteristic p > 0.

About this title

Book Description:

The model theory of fields is a fascinating subject stretching from Tarski's work on the decidability of the theories of the real and complex fields to Hrushovksi's recent proof of the Mordell-Lang conjecture for function fields. This volume provides an insightful introduction to this active area, concentrating on connections to stability theory.

About the Author:

David Marker is a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His research includes model theory and its applications to real algebraic and analytic geometry, exponentiation, and differential algebra.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1107168074
• ISBN 13: 9781107168077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164