Publication

2001-06-21 - Springer

Language

English

Word Count

48,500 words, Guess

Page Count

194 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads2927700
  • LibraryThing243796
  • Library of Congress Control Number00053829
  • OCLC Control Number45315542
  • Better World BooksP9-CGX-618
  • Open LibraryOL7448693M

Classifications

  • LCCQA76 .H6236 2001

Description

"The theory of computing provides computer science with concepts, models, and formalisms for reasoning about the resources needed to carry out computations and about the efficiency of the computations that use these resources. In addition, it provides tools to measure the difficulty of combinatorial problems both absolutely and in comparison with other problems.". "Requiring no explicit prerequisite knowledge, Computability and Complexity Theory introduces materials that are the core knowledge in the theory of computation. The book is self-contained, with a preliminary chapter describing key mathematical concepts and notations and subsequent chapters moving from the qualitative aspects of classical computability theory to the quantitative aspects of complexity theory. Dedicated chapters on undecidability NP-completeness and relative computability round of the work, which focuses on the limitations of computability and the distinctions between feasible and intractable."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

In the next chapter we will become familiar with models of computing.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Computability and Complexity Theory (Texts in Computer Science)Springer2001-06-21

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