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The crisis in finite mathematics: Automated reasoning as cause and cure

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Automated Deduction — CADE-12 (CADE 1994)

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Slaney, J. (1994). The crisis in finite mathematics: Automated reasoning as cause and cure. In: Bundy, A. (eds) Automated Deduction — CADE-12. CADE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 814. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58156-1_1

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