First Course in Logic

The ability to reason and think in a logical manner forms the basis of learning for most mathematics computer science philosophy and logic students. Based on the author's teaching notes at the University of Maryland and aimed at a broad audience this text covers the fundamental topics in classical logic in an extremely clear thorough and accurate style that is accessible to all the above. Covering propositional logic first-order logic and second-order logic as well as proof theory computability theory and model theory the text also contains numerous carefully graded exercises and is ideal for a first or refresher course.