In 1997 the Analysis and the Mathematical Logic teams of the University of Mons-Hainaut, and the Analysis team of the University of Paris 6 organized an international conference entitled “Analyse & Logique”. It took place at the University of Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium from 25 to 29 August 1997. The scientific committee consisted of Maurice Boffa (Mons), Gilles Godefroy (Paris 6; Columbia, Missouri), Tim Gowers (Cambridge), Boris S. Kashin (Moscow), Angus Macintyre (Oxford), Olek Pelczynski (Warsaw), Françoise Point (Mons), Alexander A. Razborov (Moscow), Stanimir Troyanski (Sofia), and Lior Tzafriri (Jerusalem). Members of the organizing committee Avere Robert Deville (Bordeaux), Catherine Finet (Mons), Jean-Pierre Gossez (Bruxelles), C. Ward Henson (Urbana), Chris Impens (Gent), John Jayne (London), Alain Louveau (Paris 6), Christian Michaux (Mons), André Pétry (Liège), Gilles Pisier (Paris 6; Texas A & M), Jean Schmets (Liège), and Jan Van Casteren (Antwerpen).

This conference was the third of a cycle of conferences initiated by Catherine Finet at Mons; the previous ones were held in 1987 and 1992.

The meeting was a true success; more than one hundred and twenty mathematicians from all over the world participated. The main topics discussed at the meeting were the numerous connections between Analysis and Logic.

The purpose of this volume is to report the content of the three mini-courses given by C. Ward Henson (Urbana), Alexander S. Kechris (Caltech) and Edward Odell (Austin), respectively.