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Comment author: So8res 21 November 2013 05:54:09PM *  1 point [-]

The fifth -- I had not heard that. Thanks for the tip.

I bet the Computability and Logic books on the course list cover similar subject matter. I read this book instead on the recommendation of Luke: I wanted to read up on provability logic specifically, and this book came recommended (presumably because it has an explicit introduction to provability logic at the end). I am now following it up with another of Luke's recommendations, which covers provability logic more specifically.

I should probably refrain from suggestions about the content of the course list until after I read the suggested books on Logic & Computability, but I was quite impressed by the way this book took you from zero to Löb's theorem and made it all seem easy.