LARA This is an old revision of the document! Lecture 1: General Information, Motivation, Demos, Background Overview Verification as Science Importance of Verification Proving Correctness of a Small Example and some recent results General Information Background Propositional Logic Informally Predicate Logic Informally Proofs and Induction Sets and Relations Theorem Prover Compiler Program Analyzer Computational Complexity Homework01 Questions and Answers References