Lukasiewicz's Logics and Prime Numbers
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Author(s)Alexander S Karpenko
PublisherLuniver Press
ISBN / ASIN0955117038
ISBN-139780955117039
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Sales Rank7,622,357
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Is there any link between the doctrine of logical fatalism and prime numbers? What do logic and prime numbers have in common? The book adopts truth-functional approach to examine functional properties of finite-valued Åukasiewicz logics Ån+1. Prime numbers are defined in algebraic-logical terms (Finn's theorem) and represented as rooted trees. The author designs an algorithm which for every prime number n constructs a rooted tree where nodes are natural numbers and n is a root. Finite-valued logics Kn+1 are specified that they have tautologies if and only if n is a prime number. It is discovered that Kn+1 have the same functional properties as Ån+1 whenever n is a prime number. Thus, Kn+1 are 'logics' of prime numbers. Amazingly, combination of logics of prime numbers led to uncovering a law of generation of classes of prime numbers. Along with characterization of prime numbers author also gives characterization, in terms of Åukasiewicz logical matrices, of powers of primes, odd numbers, and even numbers.