Cylindric-like Algebras and Algebraic Logic [Paperback]

Algebraic logic is a subject in the interface between logic, algebra and geometry, it has strong connections with category theory and combinatorics. Tarskis quest for finding structure in logic leads to cylindric-like algebras as studied in this book, they are among the main players in Tarskian algebraic logic. Cylindric algebra theory can be viewed in many ways:? as an algebraic form of definability theory, as a study of higher-dimensional relations, as an enrichment of Boolean Algebra theory, or, as logic in geometric form (cylindric in the name refers to geometric aspects). Cylindric-like algebras have a wide range of applications, in, e.g., natural language theory, data-base theory, stochastics, and even in relativity theory. The present volume, consisting of 18 survey papers, intends to give an overview of the main achievements and new research directions in the past 30 years, since the publication of the Henkin-Monk-Tarski monographs. It is dedicated to the memory of Leon Henkin.Introduction.- H. Andr?ka and I. N?meti: Reducing First-order Logic to Df3, Free Algebras.- N.Bezhanishvili: Varieties of Two-Dimensional Cylindric Algebras.- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson: Completions and Complete Representations.- J. Madar?sz and T. Sayed Ahmed: Amalgamation, Interpolation and Epimorphisms in Algebraic Logic.- T. Sayed Ahmed: Neat Reducts and Neat Embeddings in Cylindric Algebras.- M. Ferenczi: A New Representation Theory: Representing Cylindric-like Algebras by Relativized Set Algebras.- A. Simon: Representing all Cylindric Algebras by Twisting, On a Problem of Henkin.- A. Kurucz: Representable Cylindric Algebras and Many-Dimensional Modal Logics.- T. Sayed Ahmed: Completions, Complete Representations and Omitting Types.- G. Ser?ny: Elements of Cylindric Algebraic Model Theory.- Y. Venema: Cylindric Modal Logic.- J. van Benthem: Crs and Guarded Logics: A Fruitful Contact.- R. S. Dordevic and M. D. Raskovic: Cylindric Probability Algebras.-I. Duentsch: Cylindric Algl£%