The future of symbolic computation: mathematics versus languages

  • Authors:
  • Gérard Huet

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, Domaine de Voluceau, France

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSAM Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

This note is a response to B. Buchberger call for Eurocal'85. It argues that the current scope of symbolic computation is a very active branch of computer science, whose extremes are classical algorithm theory on one hand, and proof theory on the other hand. The main paradigm of the domain is that algorithms, programming languages as well as mathematical proofs are all mathematical formulae subject to computer treatment.