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One of the most endearing preoccupations of human beings is the way they attempt to understand the world around them and then try to improve it, with varying degrees of success. Over the years it’s been man’s insatiable curiosity — ‘…but what happens next?’ — that has driven advances in both science and engineering. As engineers we make our living out of this desire; we don’t just design things, we know how objects, yet to be built, will behave, and we can predict whether they will answer to our customers’ requirements (and even if we don’t, we should). In more formal terms, engineers not only design systems but prove these designs satisfy their specifications.