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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Bruno Poizat (translated by Moses Klein)
Title: A course in model theory: An introduction to contemporary mathematical logic
Additional book information: Springer, New York, 2000, 464 pp., ISBN 0-387-98655-3, $59.95$

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C.C. Chang and H.J. Keisler, Model Theory, 3rd edition, North Holland, 1990. MR 1059055
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W. Hodges, Model Theory, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, vol. 42, Cambridge University Press, 1993. MR 1221741
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D. Lascar, Stability in model theory, Longman Scientific and Technical, 1987. MR 0925824
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Yu. I. Manin and A. A. Panchishkin, Number Theory I, Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences, vol. 49, Springer, 1995. CMP 96:05
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A. Pillay, Model theory, Notices of AMS, December 2000. CMP 2001:04
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Ph. Rothmaler, Introduction to model theory, Gordon and Breach, 2000. CMP 2001:05
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S. Shelah, Classification Theory and the number of non-isomorphic models, North Holland, 1st. edition 1978, 2nd. revised edition 1990. MR 0513226; MR 91k:03085

Review Information:

Reviewer: Anand Pillay
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: pillay@math.uiuc.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 87-93
Published electronically: October 10, 2001
Review copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society