Abstract
Donald A. MacKenzie's Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust is a highly readable and generally insightful history of, primarily, the effort to prove computer programs safe and correct. It won the Robert K. Merton (see the Passages column for October 2020) award from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association in 2003. It is a book of history and sociology, but is likely to also introduce some technical content that will be new to, yet of interest to, many software engineers.
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