An Invitation to Mathematical Logic

In addition to covering the essentials, the author’s intention in writing this text is to entice the reader to further study mathematical logic.  There is no current “standard text” for a first graduate course in mathematical logic and this book will fill that gap.  While there is more material than could be covered in a traditional one semester course, an instructor can cover the basics and still have the flexibility to choose several weeks’ worth of interesting advanced topics that h