Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning

John Harrison is a Principal Engineer at the Intel Corporation in Portland, Oregon. He specialises in formal verification, automated theorem proving, floating-point arithmetic and mathematical algorithms.

• Preface; Ideological orientation; Acknowledgements; How to read this book; 1. Introduction; 2. Propositional logic; 3. First-order logic; 4. Equality; 5. Decidable problems; 6. Interactive theorem proving; 7. Limitations; Appendix 1. Mathematical background; Appendix 2. OCaml made light of; Appendix 3. Parsing and printing of formulas; References; Index.

'Contemporary research in computer science has produced an abundance of formal methods designed to enable hardware and software systems to reason correctly, and to enable us to reason better about these systems. Indeed, the explosion of research and specialised techniques can make it hard for students and newcomers to enter the field. John Harrison's Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning is a significant addition to the expository literature on the subject, and will serve as a valuable resource for beginners and experts alike.' Theory and Practice of Logic Programming