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This monograph develops techniques for equational reasoning in higher-order logic. Due to its expressiveness, higher-order logic is used for specification and verification of hardware, software, and mathematics. In these applications, higher-order logic provides the necessary level of abstraction for concise and natural formulations. The main assets of higher-order logic are quantification over functions or predicates and its abstraction mechanism. These allow one to represent quantification in formulas and other variable-binding constructs.
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Prehofer, C. (1998). Introduction. In: Solving Higher-Order Equations. Progress in Theoretical Computer Science. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1778-7_1
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