陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「The completeness and compactness theorems of first-order logic」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

The famous Gödel completeness theorem in logic (not to be confused with the even more famous Gödel incompleteness theorem ) roughly states the following:

Theorem 1 (Gödel completeness theorem, informal statement) Let be a first-order theory (a formal language , together with a set of axioms, i.e. sentences assumed to be true), and let be a sentence in the formal language. Assume also that the language has at most countably many symbols. Then the following are equivalent:

已知结果和反例

One can also formulate versions of the completeness theorem for languages with uncountably many symbols, but I will not do so here. One can also force other cardinalities on the model by using the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem .

To state this theorem even more informally, any (first-order) result which is true in all models of a theory, must be logically deducible from that theory, and vice versa. (For instance, any result which is true for all groups, must be deducible from the group axioms; any result which is true for all systems obeying Peano arithmetic , must be deducible from the Peano axioms; and so forth.) In fact, it suffices to check countable and finite models only; for instance, any first

证明或构造的主线

Of course, a theory may contain undecidable statements – sentences which are neither provable nor disprovable in the theory. By the completeness theorem, this is equivalent to saying that is satisfied by some models of but not by other models. Thus the completeness theorem is compatible with the incompleteness theorem: recursively enumerable theories such as Peano arithmetic are modeled by the natural numbers , but are also modeled by other structures also, and there are sent

An important corollary of the completeness theorem is the compactness theorem :

阅读时建议盯住的点

Corollary 2 (Compactness theorem, informal statement) Let be a first-order theory whose language has at most countably many symbols. Then the following are equivalent:

Indeed, the equivalence of (i)-(iii), or (iv)-(vi), follows directly from the completeness theorem, while the equivalence of (i) and (iv) follows from the fact that any logical deduction has finite length and so can involve at most finitely many of the axioms in . (Again, the theorem can be generalised to uncountable languages, but the models become uncountable also.)

值得单独记下的条目

• (i) (Syntactic consequence) can be deduced from the axioms in by a finite number of applications of the laws of deduction in first order logic. (This property is abbreviated as .)
• (ii) (Semantic consequence) Every structure which satisfies or models , also satisfies . (This property is abbreviated as .)
• (iii) (Semantic consequence for at most countable models) Every structure which is at most countable, and which models , also satisfies .
• (i) is consistent , i.e. it is not possible to logically deduce a contradiction from the axioms in .
• (ii) is satisfiable , i.e. there exists a structure that models .
• (iii) There exists a structure which is at most countable, that models .
• (iv) Every finite subset of is consistent.
• (v) Every finite subset of is satisfiable.

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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