An Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Formal System Specification, and Z
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Formal specification is the name given to the use of discrete mathematics in computer science for describing the function of both hardware and software systems. This textbook is an introduction to both the theory and practice of formal specification.
Commercial software development; Customer requirements and specification; Propositional calculus; Predicate calculus; Set theory; Relations; Functions and sequences; The specification language Z; Operations and objects in Z; The Z schema calculus; Some small Z examples; A large Z specification; Z and design.
D. C. Ince , Professor, Department of Computing, The Open University