Mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. An introductory survey. Reprint of the 1963 orig (Q2716283)

[For a review of the original edition (Van Nostrand, London etc., 1963) see Zbl 0166.24701.]NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEWhat used to be a philosophically minded guide to the foundations of mathematics, modeled upon the classics Hilbert-Ackermann and Hilbert-Bernays, cannot claim today to be more than an overview of the main foundational themes of the first four decades of the 20th century. Given the importance of those decades for the foundations of mathematics, and the fact that none of the two books it uses have been translated into English, this reprint could serve as an introduction to philosophers and historians of mathematical logic.