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A Short Survey of Automated Reasoning

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This paper surveys the field of automated reasoning, giving some historical background and outlining a few of the main current research themes. We particularly emphasize the points of contact and the contrasts with computer algebra. We finish with a discussion of the main applications so far.

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Harrison, J. (2007). A Short Survey of Automated Reasoning. In: Anai, H., Horimoto, K., Kutsia, T. (eds) Algebraic Biology. AB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4545. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73433-8_24

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