Handbook of practical logic and automated reasoning

The sheer complexity of computer systems has meant that automated reasoning, i.e. the ability of computers to perform logical inference, has become a vital component of program construction and of programming language design. This book meets the demand for a self-contained and broad-based account of...

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Main Author: Harrison, J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction. 1.1 What is logical reasoning? ; 1.2 Calculemus! ; 1.3 Symbolism ; 1.4 Boole's algebra of logic ; 1.5 Syntax and semantics ; 1.6 Symbolic computation and OCaml ; 1.7 Parsing ; 1.8 Prettyprinting -- 2. Propositional logic. 2.1 The syntax of propositional logic ; 2.2 The semantics of propositional logic ; 2.3 Validity, satisfiability and tautology ; 2.4 The De Morgan laws, adequacy and duality ; 2.5 Simplification and negation normal form ; 2.6 Disjunctive and conjunctive normal forms ; 2.7 Applications of propositional logic ; 2.8 Definitional CNF ; 2.9 The David-Putnam procedure ; 2.10 Stålmarck's method ; 2.11 Binary decision diagrams ; 2.12 Compactness --  
505 0 |a 3. First-order logic. 3.1 First-order logic and its implementation ; 3.2 Parsing and printing ; 3.3 The semantics of first-order logic ; 3.4 Syntax operations ; 3.5 Prenex normal form ; 3.6 Skolemization ; 3.7 Canonical models ; 3.8 Mechanizing Herbrand's theorem ; 3.9 Unification ; 3.10 Tableaux ; 3.11 Resolution ; 3.12 Subsumption and replacement ; 3.13 Refinements of resolution; 3.14 Horn clauses and Prolog ; 3.15 Model elimination ; 3.16 More first-order metatheorems -- 4. Equality. 4.1 Equality axioms ; 4.2 Categoricity and elementary equivalence ; 4.3 Equational logic and completeness theorems ; 4.4 Congruence closure ; 4.5 Rewriting ; 4.6 Termination orderings ; 4.7 Knuth-Bendix completion ; 4.8 Equality elimination ; 4.9 Paramodulation --  
505 0 |a 5. Decidable problems. 5.1 The decision problem ; 5.2 The AE fragment ; 5.3 Miniscoping and the monadic fragment ; 5.4 Syllogisms ; 5.5 The finite model property ; 5.6 Quantifier elimination ; 5.7 Presburger arithmetic ; 5.8 The complex numbers ; 5.9 The real numbers ; 5.10 Rings, ideals and word problems ; 5.11 Gröbner bases ; 5.12 Geometric theorem proving ; 5.13 Combining decision procedures -- 6. Interactive theorem proving. 6.1 Human-oriented methods ; 6.2 Interactive provers and proof checkers ; 6.3 Proof systems for first-order logic ; 6.4 LCF implementation of first-order logic ; 6.5 Propositional derived rules ; 6.6 Proving tautologies by inference ; 6.7 First-order derived rules ; 6.8 First-order proof by inference ; 6.9 Interactive proof styles --  
505 0 |a 7. Limitations. 7.1 Hilbert's programme ; 7.2 Tarski's theorem on the undefinability of truth ; 7.3 Incompleteness of axiom systems ; 7.4 Gödel's incompleteness theorem ; 7.5 Definability and decidability ; 7.6 Church's theorem ; 7.7 Further limitative results ; 7.8 Retrospective: the nature of logic 
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520 |a The sheer complexity of computer systems has meant that automated reasoning, i.e. the ability of computers to perform logical inference, has become a vital component of program construction and of programming language design. This book meets the demand for a self-contained and broad-based account of the concepts, the machinery and the use of automated reasoning. The mathematical logic foundations are described in conjunction with practical application, all with the minimum of prerequisites. The approach is constructive, concrete and algorithmic: a key feature is that methods are described with reference to actual implementations (for which code is supplied) that readers can use, modify and experiment with. This book is ideally suited for those seeking a one-stop source for the general area of automated reasoning. It can be used as a reference, or as a place to learn the fundamentals, either in conjunction with advanced courses or for self study