Quantifier Elimination and Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783211827949)

George Collins' discovery of Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) as a method for Quantifier Elimination (QE) for the elementary theory of real closed fields brought a major breakthrough in automating mathematics with recent important applications in high-tech areas (e.g. robot motion), also stimulating fundamental research in computer algebra over the past three decades. This volume is a state-of-the-art collection of important papers on CAD and QE and on the related area of algorithmic aspects of real geometry. It contains papers from a symposium held in Linz in 1993, reprints of seminal papers from the area including Tarski's landmark paper as well as a survey outlining the developments in CAD based QE that have taken place in the last twenty years.

Author: Bob F. Caviness
ISBN-10: 3211827943
ISBN-13: 9783211827949
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 04/16/1998
Pages: 431
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.92d