Publisher's Synopsis
This is a comprehensive introduction to many-sorted logic - a variety of classical logic with applications to computer science, artificial intelligence and mathematics. Computer science is essentially many-sorted; its reasoning is based on composite structures, such as elements and functions, data and programmes, data and time. Following a detailed introduction to the theory of many-sorted first-order logic as a universal logic encompassing a range of other logical systems, the book then focuses on its important application areas within computer science research. It requires only a basic knowledge of mathematical logic and will be of value to computer scientists, mathematicians and philosophers.
