Theorem proving

  • Authors:
  • James Slagle;Subash Shankar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The two approaches to automated theorem proving are proof finding and consequence finding. A proof finding program attempts to find a proof for a certain given theorem. A consequence-finding program is given some axioms and then tries to deduce consequences from the axioms and to select "interesting" consequences.