Peter B. Andrews
American mathematician (1937–2025)
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Peter Bruce Andrews (November 1, 1937 – April 21, 2025)[6] was an American mathematical logician. He is the creator of the mathematical logic Q0. He also received a patent on bandage for critical wounds.[7]
BornNovember 1, 1937
DiedApril 21, 2025 (aged 87)
KnownforQ0 (mathematical logic), TPS
SpouseCatherine Clair “Cate” Andrews
Peter Bruce Andrews | |
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Peter Andrews presenting lecture at IJCAR 2012 | |
| Born | November 1, 1937 |
| Died | April 21, 2025 (aged 87) |
| Known for | Q0 (mathematical logic), TPS |
| Spouse | Catherine Clair “Cate” Andrews |
| Children | Lyle, Bruce (Tobi) |
| Parent(s) | Frank Emerson, Edith Lilian Severance[1] |
| Awards | Herbrand Award, 2003 [2] |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D. in Mathematics [3] |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Thesis | A Transfinite Type Theory with Type Variables (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alonzo Church |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematical logic |
| Sub-discipline | Type theory |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University[4] |
| Doctoral students | |
| Influenced | Wolfgang Bibel[5] |
| Website | Peter B. Andrews, archived from the original on 2022-01-19, retrieved 2025-06-06 |
Theorem Proving System
His research group designed the TPS,[8] an automated theorem proving system for first-order and higher-order logic. A subsystem ETPS of TPS is used to help students learn logic by interactively constructing natural deduction proofs. Source code of TPS is available on the Internet Archive.[9]
Selected publications
A list is available on his personal web page.[10]
- Andrews, Peter B. (1965). A Transfinite Type Theory with Type Variables. North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
- Andrews, Peter B. (1971). "Resolution in type theory". Journal of Symbolic Logic 36, 414–432.
- Andrews, Peter B. (1981). "Theorem proving via general matings". J. Assoc. Comput. March. 28, no. 2, 193–214.
- Andrews, Peter B. (1986). An introduction to mathematical logic and type theory: to truth through proof. Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 978-0-1205-8535-9. Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, FL.
- Andrews, Peter B. (1989). "On connections and higher-order logic". J. Automat. Reason. 5, no. 3, 257–291.
- Andrews, Peter B.; Bishop, Matthew; Issar, Sunil; Nesmith, Dan; Pfenning, Frank; Xi, Hongwei (1996). "TPS: a theorem-proving system for classical type theory". J. Automat. Reason. 16, no. 3, 321–353.
- Andrews, Peter B. (2002). An introduction to mathematical logic and type theory: to truth through proof. Second edition. Applied Logic Series, 27. ISBN 978-1-4020-0763-7. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
