Course Information

Verification as Science - Basic Methodology

Proving Correctness of Some Small Examples - Demos

Importance of Verification - Uses of Verification

Propositional Logic Informally - Propositional Logic is the core logical reasoning

Predicate Logic Informally - We build on propositional logic from last lecture to explain first-order predicate logic.

Proofs and Induction - We make sure that we are all familiar with basic proof techniques, which we will study as formal rule systems later.

Theorem Prover - Theorem provers can check proofs, automate the proof search or use other methods to show formula validity.

Computational Complexity - Limits of algorithms for theorem provers and decision procedures, and vocabulary for expressing problem difficulty.

Compiler - Compilers help us understand how to deploy verification systems (see also our Compiler Construction course)

Sets and Relations - Some more background, useful preparation for program semantics.

(Continued in Lecture 02)