Concrete Semantics: With Isabelle/HOL
by Tobias Nipkow, Gerwin Klein
Publisher: Springer 2016
ISBN/ASIN: 3319105418
Number of pages: 308
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The book teaches the reader the art of precise logical reasoning and the practical use of a proof assistant as a surgical tool for formal proofs about computer science artefacts. The distinguishing feature is that all the mathematics has been formalised in Isabelle and much of it is executable.
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