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Logic is a system for rational enquiry and is founded on axioms and inference rules for reasoning. Modern mathematical logic dates back to the works of Frege and Peano late in the 19th century. The first attempt to use computational power for proof procedures based on predicate calculus was made in the 1950s. Logic has influenced Artificial Intelligence, the design of programming languages, their semantics, program verification procedures, and the formal specification of software systems.
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Alagar, V.S., Periyasamy, K. (1998). Logic. In: Specification of Software Systems. Graduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2920-7_6
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