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Book SynopsisI Mathematical Preliminaries.- I.1 Words and Languages.- I.2 Automata and Regular Languages.- I.3 Semigroups and Homomorphisms.- II Formal Languages and Formal Logic.- II.1 Examples.- II.2 Definitions.- III Finite Automata.- III.1 Monadic Second-Order Sentences and Regular Languages.- III.2 Regular Numerical Predicates.- III.3 Infinite Words and Decidable Theories.- IV Model-Theoretic Games.- IV.1 The Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Game.- IV.2 Application to FO[
Table of ContentsI Mathematical Preliminaries.- I.1 Words and Languages.- I.2 Automata and Regular Languages.- I.3 Semigroups and Homomorphisms.- II Formal Languages and Formal Logic.- II.1 Examples.- II.2 Definitions.- III Finite Automata.- III.1 Monadic Second-Order Sentences and Regular Languages.- III.2 Regular Numerical Predicates.- III.3 Infinite Words and Decidable Theories.- IV Model-Theoretic Games.- IV.1 The Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Game.- IV.2 Application to FO[