Elementary Logic with Applications

Elementary Logic with Applications is written for undergraduate logic and logic

programming courses. Logic has been applied to a wide variety of subjects such

as software engineering and hardware design, to programming and artificial

intelligence. In this way, it has served to stimulate the search for clear conceptual

foundations.

Recently many extensions of classical logic such as temporal, modal, relevance,

fuzzy and non-monotonic logics have been widely used in computer science,

therefore requiring a new formulation of classic logic which can be modified to

yield the effect of non-classical logics.

This text aims to introduce classical logic in such a way that one can easily

deviate into discussing non-classical logics. It defines a number of different types

of logics and the differences between them, starting with the basic notions of the

most common logic.

Elementary Logic with Applications develops a theorem prover for classical logic

in a way that maintains a procedural point of view and presents the reader with

the real challenges facing applied logic.

Dov Gabbay and Odinaldo Rodrigues have been teaching logic and computer

science for many years. Dov Gabbay has written numerous other titles on the

subject of logic and is a world authority on non-classical logics. Odinaldo

Rodrigues is widely known for his work on logic, belief revision and

argumentation.

The "Elementary Logic with Applications" course is currently taught at the

Department of Informatics, King's College London.