Mathematical logic is the study of formal logic within mathematics. Major subareas include model theory, proof theory, set theory, and recursion theory. Research in mathematical logic commonly address
Portrait of young Kurt Gödel as a student in Vienna, 1925
In logic, a quantifier is an operator that specifies how many individuals in the domain of discourse satisfy an open formula. For instance, the universal quantifier ∀ in the first-order formula ∀ x P
Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) was the first to use "quantifier" in the modern sense.