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Book SynopsisThis book provides an authoritative and multifaceted introduction to eight major approaches to computation on uncountable mathematical domains. The perspectives explored within reveal different aspects of effective uncountable mathematics, making it an ideal resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and researchers in this exciting new area of study.
Table of ContentsList of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Borel structures: a brief survey Antonio Montalbán and André Nies; 3. Infinite time Turing machines and an application to the hierarchy of equivalence relations on the reals Samuel Coskey and Joel David Hamkins; 4. Some results on R-computable structures W. Calvert and J. E. Porter; 5. Effective model theory via the Σ-definability approach Alexey Stukachev; 6. Computable structure theory using admissible recursion theory on ω1 Noam Greenberg and Julia F. Knight; 7. E-recursive intuitions Gerald E. Sacks; 8. Local computability and uncountable structures Russell Miller; 9. Reverse mathematics, countable and uncountable: a computational approach Richard A. Shore.