Biography:Peter B. Andrews
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Short description: American mathematician (1937–2025)
Peter Bruce Andrews | |
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 Peter Andrews presenting lecture at IJCAR 2012 | |
| Born | November 1, 1937 New York City |
| Died | April 21, 2025 (aged 87) Burlington, NC |
| Known for | Q0 (mathematical logic), TPS |
| Spouse(s) | 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 | Frank Pfenning, Dale Miller (academic) |
| Influenced | Wolfgang Bibel[5] |
| Website | Peter B. Andrews, http://gtps.math.cmu.edu/andrews.html, retrieved 2025-06-06 |
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]
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.
References
- ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (1978-08-09). "F. E. ANDREWS DIES; FOUNDATION EXPERT". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1978/08/09/archives/fe-andrews-dies-foundation-expert-author-of-30-books-was-head-of-a.html.
- ↑ Andrews, Peter B. (2003-10-01). "Herbrand Award Acceptance Speech" (in en). Journal of Automated Reasoning 31 (2): 169–187. doi:10.1023/b:jars.0000009552.54063.f3. ISSN 0168-7433.
- ↑ "Peter Bruce Andrews - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=8034.
- ↑ Peter Bruce Andrews Faculty Page, https://www.cmu.edu/math/people/faculty/andrews.html, retrieved 2025-06-06
- ↑ Bibel, Wolfgang (1983). "Matings in matrices". Communications of the ACM 26 (11): 844–852. doi:10.1145/182.183.
- ↑ Peter Bruce Andrews Obituary, https://www.lowefuneralhome.com/obituaries/peter-andrews, retrieved 2025-06-06
- ↑ Peter B. Andrews, "Bandage which enables examining or treating a wound without removing the adhesive", US patent granted US11324638B2, published 2021-05-28, issued 2022-05-10
- ↑ TPS and ETPS, https://gtps.math.cmu.edu/tps.html, retrieved 2025-06-06
- ↑ TPS source code, https://archive.org/details/theorem_proving_system_peter_bruce_andrews.tar, retrieved 2025-06-06
- ↑ Peter B. Andrews, http://gtps.math.cmu.edu/andrews.html, retrieved 2025-06-06
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