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Download or read book The Calculus of Computation written by Aaron R. Bradley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with graduate and advanced undergraduate students in mind, this textbook introduces computational logic from the foundations of first-order logic to state-of-the-art decision procedures for arithmetic, data structures, and combination theories. The textbook also presents a logical approach to engineering correct software. Verification exercises are given to develop the reader's facility in specifying and verifying software using logic. The treatment of verification concludes with an introduction to the static analysis of software, an important component of modern verification systems. The final chapter outlines courses of further study.