A Look Back at the First Automated Theorem Prover
srchvrs · x · 2026-07-19
70 years ago, Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw developed Logic Theorist, widely recognized as the first automated theorem prover.
It proved 38 of the first 52 theorems in chapter 2 of Principia Mathematica and even found a shorter proof for at least one of them. The project was a collaboration between the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the RAND Corporation.
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