Isabelle tutorial and user’s manual

This manual describes how to use the theorem prover Isabelle. For beginners, it explains how to perform simple single-step proofs in the built-in logics. These include first-order logic, a classical sequent calculus, zf set theory, Constructive Type Theory, and higher-order logic. Each of these logics is described. The manual then explains how to develop advanced tactics and tacticals and how to derive rules. Finally, it describes how to define new logics within Isabelle. Acknowledgements. Isabelle uses Dave Matthews’s Standard ml compiler, Poly/ml. Philippe de Groote wrote the first version of the logic lk. Funding and equipment were provided by SERC/Alvey grant GR/E0355.7 and ESPRIT BRA grant 3245. Thanks also to Philippe Noel, Brian Monahan, Martin Coen, and Annette Schumann.