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Automatic theorem proving. II

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Part I of the survey with its bibliography was published in Kibernetika, No. 3 (1986).

Translated from Kibernetika, No. 4, pp. 88–95, 108, July–August, 1987.

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Voronkov, A.A., Degtyarev, A.I. Automatic theorem proving. II. Cybern Syst Anal 23, 547–556 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01078915

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