Model Theory An Introduction
This book is a modern introduction to model theory which stresses applications to algebra throughout the text. The first half of the book includes classical material on model construction techniques, type spaces, prime models, saturated models, countable
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Editorial Board: S. Axler Mathematics Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA [email protected]
F.W. Gehring Mathematics Department East Hall University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA [email protected]
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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 03-01, 03Cxx Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marker, D. (David), 1958– Model theory : an introduction / David Marker p. cm. — (Graduate texts in mathematics ; 217) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-387-98760-6 (hc : alk. paper) 1. Model theory. I. Title. II. Series. QA9.7 .M367 2002 511.3—dc21 2002024184 ISBN 0-387-98760-6
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Contents
Introduction
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1 Structures and Theories 1.1 Languages and Structures . . . . . 1.2 Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Definable Sets and Interpretability 1.4 Exercises and Remarks . . . . . . .
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2 Basic Techniques 2.1 The Compactness Theorem 2.2 Complete Theories . . . . . 2.3 Up and Down . . . . . . . . 2.4 Back and Forth . . . . . . . 2.5 Exercises and Remarks . . .
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3 Algebraic Examples 3.1 Quantifier Elimination . . . 3.2 Algebraically Closed Fields 3.3 Real Closed Fields . . . . . 3.4 Exercises and Remarks . . .
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