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In this chapter we fix some basic mathematical notation used in the rest of the book and introduce the important concepts of signature, logical system and goal-oriented derivation.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdös)
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Bruni, R., Montanari, U. (2017). Preliminaries. In: Models of Computation. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42900-7_2
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