Concrete Abstractions [electronic resource] : Formalizing and Analyzing Discrete Theories and Algorithms with the RISCAL Model Checker /

1. Theories and Algorithms -- 2. Searching and Sorting -- 3. Sets, Relations, and Graphs -- 4. Propositional Logic -- 5. Big Number and Polynomial Arithmetic -- 6. Puzzles and Games -- 7. Concurrent Systems -- 8. Further Topics -- Appendices -- References -- Index.

This book demonstrates how to formally model various mathematical domains (including algorithms operating in these domains) in a way that makes them amenable to a fully automatic analysis by computer software. The presented domains are typically investigated in discrete mathematics, logic, algebra, and computer science; they are modeled in a formal language based on first-order logic which is sufficiently rich to express the core entities in whose correctness we are interested: mathematical theorems and algorithmic specifications. This formal language is the language of RISCAL, a “mathematical model checker” by which the validity of all formulas and the correctness of all algorithms can be automatically decided. The RISCAL software is freely available; all formal contents presented in the book are given in the form of specification files by which the reader may interact with the software while studying the corresponding book material.