COMP 409:Logic in Computer Science
Compiled by Moshe Y. Vardi
P.R.H. Anonymous
If you think that your paper is vacuous,
Use the first-order functional calculus.
It then becomes logic,
And, as if by magic,
The obvious is hailed as miraculous.
Logic has been called "the calculus of computer science".
The argument is that logic plays a fundamental role in computer
science, similar to that played by calculus in the physical sciences
and traditional engineering disciplines. Indeed, logic plays an
important role in areas of Computer Science as disparate
as architecture (logic gates), software engineering (specification
and verification), programming languages (semantics, logic programming),
databases (relational algebra and SQL), artificial intelligence
(automatic theorem proving), algorithms
(complexity and expressiveness), and theory of computation
(general notions of computability).
COMP 409 provides the student with a thorough introduction to
mathematical logic, covering in depth the topics of syntax,
semantics, decision procedures, formal systems, and definability
for both propositional and first-order logic.
The material is taught from a computer science perspective,
with an emphasis on algorithms and computational complexity.
The goal is to prepare the students for using logic as a formal tool
in computer science.
Course Material:
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In 2005:
The course is offered in the fall. This web page is dormant during the spring.