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082 _a511.352
_bROS/P
100 _aRosenberg, Aarnold L.
245 4 _aThe pillars of computation theory: state, encoding, nondeterminism/
_cArnold L. Rosenberg
260 _aNew York:
_bSpringer,
_c2010.
300 _axvii, 324 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aPt. I. Prolegomena. Introduction -- Mathematical preliminaries -- pt. II. State. Online automata: exemplars of "state" -- Finite automata and regular languages -- Applications of the Myhill-Nerode theorem -- Enrichment topics -- pt. III. Encoding. Countability and uncountability: the precursors of "encoding" -- Enrichment topic: "efficient" pairing functions, with applications -- Computability theory -- pt. IV. Nondeterminism. Nondeterministic online automata -- Nondeterministic FAs -- Nondeterminism in computability theory -- Complexity theory.
650 _aComputational complexity
650 _aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical
650 _aAlgorithms
650 _aMathematics
942 _cWB16