In fond memory of his former intemperate self, Sacks (Harvard U.) retains the sweeping assertions and dubious jokes from the 1972 edition, but silently tidies up the many typographical and some mathem
This anthology contains 31 significant papers in mathematical logic, mostly published in the second half of the twentieth century. Sacks, selecting on the basis of brevity as well as results, includes
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. This volume, the second publication in the Perspectives in Logic series, is an almost self-contained introduction to higher recursion theory, in which the reader is only assumed to know the basics of classical recursion theory. The book is divided into four parts: hyperarithmetic sets, metarecursion, α-recursion, and E-recursion. This text is essential reading for all researchers in the field.
