What is a good logic book for a newbie?

Context: High School
Thread starter wajed
Start date Apr 7, 2009
Tags

Book Logic

Join the discussion

Registration is free. Ask a follow-up in this thread, or start your own.

1 reply · 3K views

wajed

Thread starter
Apr 7, 2009

I`m studying Engineering -not mathematics-, so what is a good book to start with?

Discussion

Physics news on Phys.org

Quantum spin effects may enhance one-way electrical transport in chiral magnets
Spectroscopy system detects aerosols using light reflected from traffic signs and tree trunks
Cesium atoms and quantum dots generate indistinguishable photons for modular quantum networks

Tac-Tics

Apr 7, 2009

Dover has a book called Set Theory and Formal Logic. It's not bad.

You might want to pick up a copy of Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach. Not really a textbook on logic, but it does deliver "more than the gist" of it in a super casual, friendly manner.

What is a good logic book for a newbie?

Discussion

Graduate Expected numbers of cards of a last color remaining

Graduate Probability puzzle

Undergrad The problem of points

Undergrad The countability paradox of computable numbers

Undergrad How does axiom of foundation prevent infinite sequence of elements?

Graduate Cannot understand this corollary on surreal numbers

High School Bunkbed Conjecture Debunked?

Insights Revisiting the Velocity-Time Function

Insights Remote Operated Gate Control System

Insights AI Enriched Problem Solving

Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box

Insights Why Entangled Photon-Polarization Qubits Violate Bell’s Inequality

Insights Quantum Entanglement is a Kinematic Fact, not a Dynamical Effect

What is a good logic book for a newbie?

Discussion

Similar threads

Logic Book: Definitions, Language & Existential Formulas

Good and easy mathematical logic book for computer science

Undergrad Question: What book would you recommend for reading about mathematical logic?

Other Intro Logic Books (differences between Peter Smith, J.J. Smith and P.Teller)

Is "Quantum Mechanics Demystified" a good book for a beginner?

Undergrad Elementary Logic Book: Complete Completeness Theorem Coverage

Intro Physics What is the best conceptual high school physics book?

High School What is the usefulness of formal logic theory?

Other Advice on books for logic puzzle questions for software engineers

Analysis What’s a good book on transcendental functions?