IT is recorded that when a pupil asked Confucius what he would do first if he had absolute power, the Master replied “I should reform language”. (The development of the theme in the text of the ...

Logic programming is an approach to computer science in which the first order predicate logic is used as a high level programming language. The use of symbolic logic as a programming language has a ...

Many attempts to develop artificial intelligence are powered by powerful systems of mathematical logic. They tend to produce results that make logical sense to a computer program — but the result is ...

A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879–1931. By Jean van Heijenoort. (Source Books in the History of the Sciences.) Pp. x + 660. (Harvard University Press ...