Book Computability and Complexity PDF

Computability and Complexity PDF
By:Neil D. Jones
Published on 1997-01 by MIT Press

|Neil Jones is one of the precious few computer scientists with great expertise and leadership roles in both formal methods and complexity. This makes his book especially valuable.| -- Yuri Gurevich, Professor of Computer Science, University of Michigan Computability and complexity theory should be of central concern to practitioners as well as theorists. Unfortunately, however, the field is known for its impenetrability. Neil Jones's goal as an educator and author is to build a bridge between computability and complexity theory and other areas of computer science, especially programming. In a shift away from the Turing machine- and Gö del number-oriented classical approaches, Jones uses concepts familiar from programming languages to make computability and complexity more accessible to computer scientists and more applicable to practical programming problems. According to Jones, the fields of computability and complexity theory, as well as programming languages and semantics, have a great deal to offer each other. Computability and complexity theory have a breadth, depth, and generality not often seen in programming languages. The programming language community, meanwhile, has a firm grasp of algorithm design, presentation, and implementation. In addition, programming languages sometimes provide computational models that are more realistic in certain crucial aspects than traditional models. New results in the book include a proof that constant time factors do matter for its programming-oriented model of computation. (In contrast, Turing machines have a counterintuitive |constant speedup| property: that almost anyprogram can be made to run faster, by any amount. Its proof involves techniques irrelevant to practice.) Further results include simple characterizations in programming terms of the central complexity classes PTIME and LOGSPACE, and a new approach to complete problems for NLOGSPACE, PTIME, NPTIME, and PSPACE, uniformly based on Boolean programs. |Foundations of Computing series|

This Book was ranked at 25 by Google Books for keyword Computers Technology Programming Languages novel.

Book ID of Computability and Complexity's Books is 2iJnkaFSojEC, Book which was written byNeil D. Joneshave ETAG "klnDllu6DJY"

Book which was published by MIT Press since 1997-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780262100649 and ISBN 10 Code is 0262100649

Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true

Book which have "466 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryComputers

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false

Book Preview

Download Computability and Complexity PDF Free

Download Computability and Complexity Books Free

Download Computability and Complexity Free

Download Computability and Complexity PDF

Download Computability and Complexity Books