A course in model theory: an introduction to contemporary mathematical logic
Choice Reviews Online · 2001
Chapter five quotes Moliere.Alceste, the misanthrope, praises the simplicity of an old song .Chapter six, old French again: Villehardouin reports on the siege of Constantinople, where limited means have produced tremendous results.Chapter seven: in Greek , the question of Pilate on truth, from the Gospel of St .John.Chapter eight: a quotation in Hebrew from the absolute bestseller.It poses some problems to the specialists (what is the true meaning of "Eden of the East" ?), but the allusion to Cantor's paradise is, I hope, transparent.Chapter nine : delicious, and morbid, definition of saturation by Littre in his celebrated Dictionary of the French Language.Chapter ten: too difficult for me to explain; a pun on typesvfrom