Guide to the Notebooks


The intention of the GOEDEL program is to discover how to formulate definitions and theorems in Goedel's class theory in a form suitable for the needs of automated reasoning. The GOEDEL program itself is not an automated reasoning program, but it does provide tools for eliminating class formation from definitions and tools for simplifying descriptions of classes as well as statements about classes. Even if one has no intention of using this program, some of the results obtained may still be of interest.

For those who do intend to learn how to use this program, it is hoped that these notebooks will provide useful practical illustrations of how one goes about using the program to formulate definitions of classes and to discover new theorems in Goedel's class theory.

The notebooks were prepared using a variety of computers, some Unix and some Windows95, Windows98 or Windows XP, some with Mathematica 3 and some with higher versions. If the Mathematica program is not available, one can still read these files by using the MathReader program that can be obtained for free from Wolfram Research. The notebooks are also provided in PDF format for those who prefer not to use MathReader.

There are many more notebooks besides those provided on the web. Most rewrite rules in the GOEDEL program were derived using earlier versions of the program. For each such rule there is a note stating the date and the file in which the rule was derived. If one is curious to see how some particular rewrite rule was originally derived, and if it is in a notebook not found on this website, please send me an e-mail request, and I will be happy to furnish it.

If one wishes to actually repeat the calculations, one would need to load in the appropriate version of the GOEDEL program as well as the tools.m file. The latter is located in the goedel/tools directory. The tools.m file replaces the tests.m file used in some of the older notebooks. Only the current version of the GOEDEL program is located in the goedel/goedel directory. Since the GOEDEL program is constantly being updated, the results obtained using the latest version of the program will probably differ from what is displayed in a given notebook. The many old versions not posted on the web are all available upon request.

The most recently added notebooks listed below may not yet have been converted to PDF format. In those cases, one can still access the notebooks themselves.


Link back to main GOEDEL directory.

List of the Notebooks

(a) Tutorials: Notebook files.

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(b) Notebooks used to prepare talks at conferences.

Comment: The talks themselves and the slides prepared from these notebooks are available on the vitae page. Note: The style file Transparent.nb is needed to view the crhltalk.nb file.

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(b) Notebooks prepared with collaborators.

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(c) Research snapshots: notebooks.

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(d) Open questions.

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(e) Results related to the axiom of choice.

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Last Updated 2008 August 7