[LP81] H .R. Lewis and C.H. Papadimitriou . Elements of the theory of computing . Prentice-Hall , Inc ., 1981 . [Mar91] J .C. Martin . Introduction to languages and the theory of computation. McGraw-Hill, Inc . , 1991 . [MY78] M . Michael Machtey and P . Young . An introduction to the general theory of algorithms . Elsevier North Holland, Inc ., 1978. [Sip97] M . Sipser . Introduction to the theory of computation . PWS Publishing Company, 1997 . Review of Vicious Circles by Jon Barwise and Lawrence Moss Published by Cambridge University Press in 199 6 Softcover,$24 .95, 390 pages ISBN number 1-575-86008- 2 Review by Alexander Dekhtya r University of Marylan d dekhtyar@cs .umd .ed u 1 Overview Since its very first days, modern set theory had "paradox " written all over it . For the past hundre d years some of the best mathematitians of late 19th and 20th century (such as Cantor, Russel an d Tarski) would devote their attention to the analysis of set theory, paradoxes it creates and attempt s to modify it in order to escape these paradoxes. As a result of the attempts to rid the set
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