Fascinating Country In The World Of Computing A Your Guide To Automated Reasoning

Download or read book Fascinating Country In The World Of Computing, A: Your Guide To Automated Reasoning written by Gail W Pieper and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows you — through examples and puzzles and intriguing questions — how to make your computer reason logically. To help you, the book includes a CD-ROM with OTTER, the world's most powerful general-purpose reasoning program. The automation of reasoning has advanced markedly in the past few decades, and this book discusses some of the remarkable successes that automated reasoning programs have had in tackling challenging problems in mathematics, logic, program verification, and circuit design. Because the intended audience includes students and teachers, the book provides many exercises (with hints and also answers), as well as tutorial chapters that gently introduce readers to the field of logic and to automated reasoning in general. For more advanced researchers, the book presents challenging questions, many of which are still unsolved.