CS 4860

CS 4860

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

Propositional and predicate logic, compactness and completeness using tableaux, natural deduction, and/or resolution. Other topics chosen from the following: Equational logic. Herbrand Universes and unification. Rewrite rules and equational logic, Knuth-Bendix method, and the congruence-closure algorithm and lambda-calculus reduction strategies. Modal logics, intuitionistic logic, Prolog, LISP, ML, or Nuprl. Applications to expert systems and program verification. Noncomputability (Turing) and incompleteness (Gödel).

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: MATH 2210-MATH 2220, MATH 2230-MATH 2240, or MATH 1920 and MATH 2940; CS 2800 (or MATH 3320, MATH 3340 (formerly 4320), MATH 3360, or MATH 4340); and some additional course in mathematics or theoretical computer science.
Forbidden Overlaps Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: CS 4860, MATH 4810, MATH 4860, PHIL 4310.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MATH 4860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16882 CS 4860   LEC 001

  • Enrollment limited to CIS students only. All others may add themselves to the waitlist during Add/Drop. Please go to http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courseinfo/enrollment for updates