Topics in Automated Theorem Proving (236 714): WS 2013/14


Homepage:
http://cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/COURSES/THPR/index.html
Old Homepage 2006/7:
http://cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/COURSES/THPR/index-2006-7.html

Participants

NEW: Course material for 2013/14:

Notes on logic
Slides of Lecture 2 (revised October 24, 2013)
Slides of Lecture 3 (posted November 1, 2013)
Slides of Lecture 4 and 6 (posted November 23, 2013), without Lecture 5
Slides of Lecture 7 (posted November 23, 2013, on Geometry)
Slides of Lecture 8 (posted December 23, 2013, on QE in ACF_0)


Course material from 2003:
Old Lecture notes
Chapter 3 of the book with proof of Tarski's theorem.

Lecturer: Prof. J.A. Makowsky
Taub 628, Tel: 4358, e-mail: janos@cs

Format: 2 hours lecture + 1 hour tirgul


NEW TIME AND LOCATION

Lecture: Thursday 10:30-12:30 (Starting October 17)
Tirgul: Thursday 09:30-10:30 (starting October 24)
Place: Taub 4

Last given: By J.A. Makowsky (2006/7, 2003, 1989/90), by Monty Newborn (1992/93)

Prerequisites: Logic for CS (234 292) or Set Theory and Logic (234 293)


Course outline:

Automated theorem proving is used in two rather different ways. Universal formalisms are used in Artificial Intelligence and Databases to automatize deductive systems in general data and knowledge processing. The Highly specialized formalisms are used in well structured applications such as computational geometry and other branches of computer aided mathematics. We shall study both approaches in a certain depth. Course goal: Exploring the achievements of automated theorem proving.
Introducing topics for M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses.

Course requirements: Four homework assignements. Projects or take home exam.

Literature: No single textbook covers our approach. The most updated reference is:

Our course takes material from volume 1:
Chapters 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 12

Additional references:

  1. Recent papers of interest, to be posted when relevant.
  2. Shang-Ching Chou, Mechanical Geometry Theorem Proving, Reidel, 1988
  3. Wen-Tsuen Wu, Mechanical Theorem proving in Geometries, Springer 1994
  4. B.F. Caviness and J.R. Johnson (eds), Quantifier Elimination and Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition, Springer 1998