Peter B. Andrews

Peter Bruce Andrews (November 1, 1937 – April 21, 2025) was an American mathematical logician. He is the creator of the mathematical logic Q0. He also received a patent for a bandage system that allows access to wounds without the need to remove the bandage completely.

Theorem Proving System

His research group designed the TPS, 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.

Selected publications A list is available on his personal web page.

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. . 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. . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.