activity
20092018
most citedHilbert's epsilon as an Operator of Indefinite Committed Choice

14 citations · 60 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

17 papers

math.HO2018★ 1 cited

A Most Interesting, but Revoked Draft for Hilbert and Bernays' "Grundlagen der Mathematik" that never found its way into any publication, and 2 CV of Gisbert Hasenjaeger

Claus-Peter Wirth

In 1934, in Bernays preface to the 1st edn. of the 1st vol. of Hilbert-Bernays "Grundlagen der Mathematik", a nearly completed draft of the the finally two-volume monograph is ment…

cs.LO2016

The Explicit Definition of Quantifiers via Hilbert's epsilon is Confluent and Terminating

Claus-Peter Wirth

We investigate the elimination of quantifiers in first-order formulas via Hilbert's epsilon-operator (or -binder), following Bernays' explicit definitions of the existential and th…

math.LO2015

Herbrand's Fundamental Theorem - an encyclopedia article

Claus-Peter Wirth

Herbrand's Fundamental Theorem provides a constructive characterization of derivability in first-order predicate logic by means of sentential logic. Sometimes it is simply called "…

cs.AI2015★ 7 cited

The RatioLog Project: Rational Extensions of Logical Reasoning

Ulrich Furbach, Claudia Schon, Frieder Stolzenburg +2

Higher-level cognition includes logical reasoning and the ability of question answering with common sense. The RatioLog project addresses the problem of rational reasoning in deep…

math.LO2014★ 1 cited

Herbrand's Fundamental Theorem: The Historical Facts and their Streamlining

Claus-Peter Wirth

Using Heijenoort's unpublished generalized rules of quantification, we discuss the proof of Herbrand's Fundamental Theorem in the form of Heijenoort's correction of Herbrand's "Fal…

cs.AI2013★ 4 cited

Automation of Mathematical Induction as part of the History of Logic

J Strother Moore, Claus-Peter Wirth

We review the history of the automation of mathematical induction