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- From: hardy@elc.mth.uct.ac.za (Hardy Hulley)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Looking for proof checking/building software for teaching
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.234310.28222@ucthpx.uct.ac.za>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:43:10 GMT
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- sjt@ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Thompson) writes:
- : I am looking for software to support teaching propositional and predicate
- : logic at undergraduate level. Specifically, I would like software for the
- : IBM PC or for Sun workstations which support the interactive construction of
- : proofs. I will post a summary of responses, assuming I receive any, to the
- : net.
- :
- : Many thanks
- :
- : Simon Thompson
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- Last year we wrote a very simple Predicate Calculus proof-checker which runs
- on top of Cambridge University's HOL theorem prover. We had exactly the same
- idea as you have - we got undergraduate students to construct their proofs
- in the system, and the proof-checker then checked the validity of these proofs.
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- The HOL software runs beautifully on a Sun workstation, and writing a system
- especially for Predicate Calculus is a simple exercise.
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- Hardy Hulley
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- Lab. for Formal Aspects and Complexity in Computer Science
- University of Cape Town
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