Formal Logic

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential elements of standard (classical) symbolic logic. Key topics covered include:

The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic introduces ideas and thinkers central to the development of philosophical and formal logic.

This Festschrift, dedicated to Reiner Hähnle on the occasion of his 60th birthday, contains papers written by many of his closest collaborators.
After positions at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology, since 2011 Reiner has been the chaired professor of Software Engineering at Technische Universität Darmstadt, where his team focuses on the formal verification of object-oriented software, the formal modeling and specification of highly adaptive software systems, and formal modeling and analysis in domains such as biological systems and railroad operations.

Logic and computation are highly interdependent areas of research. On the one hand, logic plays an important role in computation both at the foundational and applied levels. For instance, several well-known programming and specification languages and systems have been developed as computational implementations of logical systems. Computing paradigms, such as declarative programming or formal specification and verification, owe much to logic. On the other hand, there are lots of computing-driven studies on logic.