Automata and Computability (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science) - Hardcover

Kozen, Dexter C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387949070 ISBN 13: 9780387949079

Verlag: Springer, 2007

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<P>THIS TEXTBOOK PROVIDES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BASIC THEORETICAL MODELS OF COMPUTABILITY, AND DEVELOPS SOME OF THE MODEL'S RICH AND VARIED STRUCTURE. THE FIRST PART OF THE BOOK IS DEVOTED TO FINITE AUTOMATA AND THEIR PROPERTIES. PUSHDOWN AUTOMATA PROVIDE A BROADER CLASS OF MODELS AND ENABLE THE ANALYSIS OF CONTEXT-FREE LANGUAGES. IN THE REMAINING CHAPTERS, TURING MACHINES ARE INTRODUCED AND THE BOOK CULMINATES IN ANALYSES OF EFFECTIVE COMPUTABILITY, DECIDABILITY, AND GÖDEL'S INCOMPLETENESS THEOREMS. STUDENTS WHO ALREADY HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE WITH ELEMENTARY DISCRETE MATHEMATICS WILL FIND THIS A WELL-PACED FIRST COURSE, AND A NUMBER OF SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS INTRODUCE MORE ADVANCED CONCEPTS.</P>

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This textbook provides undergraduate students with an introduction to the basic theoretical models of computability, and develops some of the model's rich and varied structure. The first part of the book is devoted to finite automata and their properties. Pushdown automata provide a broader class of models and enable the analysis of context-free languages. In the remaining chapters, Turing machines are introduced and the book culminates in analyses of effective computability, decidability, and Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Students who already have some experience with elementary discrete mathematics will find this a well-paced first course, and a number of supplementary chapters introduce more advanced concepts.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0387949070
• ISBN 13: 9780387949079
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424