Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics

✍ Scribed by Dijkstra, Edsger W. & Scholten, Carel S.

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 234
Series: Texts and Monographs in Computer Science
Category: Library

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