A combination of nonstandard analysis and geometry theorem proving, with application to Newton's Principia

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1421, Issue , 1998, Pages 3-16

  Fleuriot, Jacques D ^a   Paulson, Lawrence C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; GEOMETRY;

EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY; GEOMETRIC THEORY; GEOMETRY THEOREM; ISABELLE; NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS; ROBINSON; THEOREM PROVERS; TRADITIONAL BOUNDARIES;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 81755168801     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0054241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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