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Introduction to languages and the theory of computation

Title
Introduction to languages and the theory of computation / John C. Martin.
Author
Martin, John C.
Publication
Boston : McGraw-Hill, [2003], ©2003.
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Description
xiii, 543 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Sequential machine theory
  • Computable functions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-530) and indexes.
Contents
Pt. I. Mathematical Notation and Techniques -- Ch. 1. Basic Mathematical Objects -- Ch. 2. Mathematical Induction and Recursive Definitions -- Pt. II. Regular Languages and Finite Automata -- Ch. 3. Regular Expressions and Finite Automata -- Ch. 4. Nondeterminism and Kleene's Theorem -- Ch. 5. Regular and Nonregular Languages -- Pt. III. Context-Free Languages and Pushdown Automata -- Ch. 6. Context-Free Grammars -- Ch. 7. Pushdown Automata -- Ch. 8. Context-Free and Non-Context-Free Languages -- Pt. IV. Turing Machines and Their Languages -- Ch. 9. Turing Machines -- Ch. 10. Recursively Enumerable Languages -- Pt. V. Unsolvable Problems and Computable Functions -- Ch. 11. Unsolvable Problems -- Ch. 12. Computable Functions -- Pt. VI. Introduction to Computational Complexity -- Ch. 13. Measuring and Classifying Complexity -- Ch. 14. Tractable and Intractable Problems.
ISBN
  • 0072322004 (alk. paper)
  • 0071198547 (International ed. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002070865
OCLC
  • ocm49704774
  • SCSB-4326830
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Columbia University Libraries