Categorical Logic and Type Theory, Volume 141

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Gulf Professional Publishing, May 10, 2001 - Computers - 778 pages
This book is an attempt to give a systematic presentation of both logic and type theory from a categorical perspective, using the unifying concept of fibred category. Its intended audience consists of logicians, type theorists, category theorists and (theoretical) computer scientists.
 

Contents

Prospectus
1
Introduction to fibred category theory
19
Simple type theory
119
Equational Logic
169
First order predicate logic
219
Higher order predicate logic
311
The effective topos
373
Internal category theory
407
Polymorphic type theory
441
Advanced fibred category theory
509
First order dependent type theory
581
Higher order dependent type theory
645
References
717
Notation Index
735
Subject Index
743
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