An Invitation to Model Theory

An innovative and largely self-contained textbook bringing model theory to an undergraduate audience.

Preface; Part I. Languages and Structures: 1. Structures; 2. Terms; 3. Formulas; 4. Definable sets; 5. Substructures and quantifiers; Part II. Theories and Compactness: 6. Theories and axioms; 7. The complex and real fields; 8. Compactness and new constants; 9. Axiomatisable classes; 10. Cardinality considerations; 11. Constructing models from syntax; Part III. Changing Models: 12. Elementary substructures; 13. Elementary extensions; 14. Vector spaces and categoricity; 15. Linear orders; 16. The successor structure; Part IV. Characterising Definable Sets: 17. Quantifier elimination for DLO; 18. Substructure completeness; 19. Power sets and Boolean algebras; 20. The algebras of definable sets; 21. Real vector spaces and parameters; 22. Semi-algebraic sets; Part V. Types: 23. Realising types; 24. Omitting types; 25. Countable categoricity; 26. Large and small countable models; 27. Saturated models; Part VI. Algebraically Closed Fields: 28. Fields and their extensions; 29. Algebraic closures of fields; 30. Categoricity and completeness; 31. Definable sets and varieties; 32. Hilbert's Nullstellensatz; Bibliography; Index.