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Book SynopsisThis second edition continues to provide a clear introduction to formal reasoning which is both relevant to the needs of modern computer science and rigorous enough for practical application. Improvements have been made throughout, with many extra and expanded sections and exercises. The coverage of model-checking has been substantially updated.
Trade Review'… an unusual, inspiring and remarkable book … one can find in it all the material which is suitable for undergraduate and beginning graduate students in computer science and electrical engineering who will profit by using it in their professional activities in the near future.' Zentralblatt MATH
'The second edition of this successful textbook continues to provide a clear introduction to formal reasoning relevant to the needs of modern computer science and sufficiently exacting for practical applications.' Phinews
'This book provides an elegant introduction to formal reasoning that is relevant to computation science. This second edition improves the first one with extra and expanded sections on temporal logic model checking, SAT solvers, second-order logic, the Alloy specification language, and programming by contract. The material is up-to-date and practical …' Zentralblatt MATH
Table of ContentsForeword; 1. Propositional logic; 2. Predicate logic; 3. Verification by model checking; 4. Program verification; 5. Modal logics and agents; 6. Binary decision diagrams; Bibliography; Index.
