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Matrix Logic

Book information

Publisher
Elsevier Science Ltd
Year
1988
ISBN
0444704329, 9780444704320
LCC
QA9.9 .S74 1988
Open Library ID
OL2034968M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3033606 bytes)
Pages
220\220
DPI
600
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In this pioneering work, the author develops a fundamental formulation of logic in terms of theory of matrices and vector spaces. The discovery of matrix logic represents a landmark in the further formalization of logic. For the first time the power of direct mathematical computation is applied to the whole set of logic operations, allowing the derivation of both the classical and modal logics from the same formal base. The new formalism allows the author to enlarge the alphabet of the truth-values with negative logic antivalues and to link matrix logic descriptions with the Dirac formulation of quantum theory - a result having fundamental implications and repercussions for science as a whole. As a unified language which permits a logical examination of the underlying phenomena of quantum field theory and vice versa, matrix logic opens new avenues for the study of fundamental interactions and gives rise to a revolutionary conclusion that physics as such can be viewed and studied as a logic in the fundamental sense. Finally, modelling itself on exact sciences, matrix logic does not refute the classical logic but instead incorporates it as a special deterministic limit.

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