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

Kozen, Dexter C.

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9780387949079: Automata and Computability (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0387949070 ISBN 13: 9780387949079
Publisher: Springer, 1997

Synopsis

The aim of this textbook is to provide undergraduate students with an introduction to the basic theoretical models of computability, and to develop some of the model's rich and varied structure. Students who have already some experience with elementary discrete mathematics will find this a well-paced first course, and a number of supplementary chapters introduce more advanced concepts. 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 discussions of effective computability, decidability, and Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Plenty of exercises are provided, ranging from the easy to the challenging. As a result, this text will make an ideal first course for students of computer science.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0387949070
ISBN 13 
9780387949079
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
413
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