Comments on: Seminar styles http://www.logicmatters.net/2008/02/seminar-styles/ Logic, enthusiasms, sceptical thoughts, and a little LaTeX geekery Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: rowsety moid http://www.logicmatters.net/2008/02/seminar-styles/comment-page-1/#comment-195 rowsety moid Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:18:00 +0000 http://www.logicmatters.net/?p=230#comment-195 I wonder whether some of the density is due to the shortening. A quick comparison on one part - re imaginary elements - left me unsure. Once he reached the point where imaginaries were defined, the text was pretty much the same in both books; but I thought the way the longer book got to that point was more interesting to read.<br/><br/>I also wonder whether all (current) model theory texts at that level will have a similar problem, or whether some (Chang and Keisler maybe? Poizat?) would be more approachable.<br/><br/>BTW, if Amazon is correct, the longer book will be appearing in paperback later this year, priced 50 pounds, which is a lot though, unfortunately, not out of line with prices for many other maths and logic texts. :( At least it's less than half the absurd hardcover price.<br/><br/>Also BTW, re the project of explaining forcing, Hodge's book Building Models by Games might be included. I wonder whether some of the density is due to the shortening. A quick comparison on one part – re imaginary elements – left me unsure. Once he reached the point where imaginaries were defined, the text was pretty much the same in both books; but I thought the way the longer book got to that point was more interesting to read.

I also wonder whether all (current) model theory texts at that level will have a similar problem, or whether some (Chang and Keisler maybe? Poizat?) would be more approachable.

BTW, if Amazon is correct, the longer book will be appearing in paperback later this year, priced 50 pounds, which is a lot though, unfortunately, not out of line with prices for many other maths and logic texts. :( At least it’s less than half the absurd hardcover price.

Also BTW, re the project of explaining forcing, Hodge’s book Building Models by Games might be included.

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