Logic in Computer Science
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. Improvements have been made throughout with many new and expanded text sections. The coverage of model-checking has been substantially updated and additional exercises are included. Internet support includes worked solutions for teacher exercises and model solutions to some student exercises.
First Edition Hb (2000): 0-521-65200-6
First Edition Pb (2000): 0-521-65602-8
- First edition was successfully used worldwide on undergraduate courses, on industry courses and for self-study
- New edition completely up-to-date and related to new software tools
- Solutions for instructors, as well as a selection of figures and code listings from the book are available from www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/lics/
Reviews & endorsements
"Huth and Ryan explain a variety of fundamental topics in formal computer science logic and help readers understand how to follow and expand on them." H.J. Bender, Any Language Communications, Inc., CHOICE
"Readers searching for a good book on formal methods will find it here." Choice
Product details
August 2004Paperback
9780521543101
440 pages
247 × 175 × 21 mm
0.75kg
10 tables 400 exercises
Available
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- 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.