Animating formal proof at the surface: the Jape proof calculator

Computer Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 177-192

  Bornat, Richard ^b   Sufrin, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FORMAL LOGIC; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LINGUISTICS; THEOREM PROVING;

JAPE; PROOF CALCULATOR;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032644751     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/42.3.177     Document Type: Article

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