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The Mathematics of Programming

In his 1985 inaugural lecture at Oxford University, Tony Hoare advocates for a mathematical foundation for programming. He highlights how mathematical methods can improve software reliability, maintenance, and safety.

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“Many computer programs of the present day are of inordinate size—many thousands of pages of closely printed text. Mathematics has no tradition of dealing with expressions on this scale.”
Tony Hoare

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• Title: The Mathematics of Programming

• Author: Tony Hoare

• Type: Article

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall

• Publication time: October 17, 1985

• Publication place: New Jersey, United States

• Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/63445.C1104376

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