National Open University Library

Introduction to languages and the theory of computation /

Martin, John C.

Introduction to languages and the theory of computation / - 4th ed. - Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2003. - xii, 436 p. : ill. ;

Including Indexes

Mathematical Notation and Techniques -- Basic Mathematical Objects -- Mathematical Induction and Recursive Definitions -- Regular Languages and Finite Automata -- Regular Languages and Finie Automata -- Nondeterminism and Kleene's Theorem -- Regular and Nonregular Languages -- Context-Free Languages and Pushdown Automata -- Context-Free Grammars -- Pushdown Automata -- Context-Free and Non-Context-Free Languages -- Turing Machines and Their Languages -- Turing Machines -- Recursively Enumerable Languages -- Unsolvable Problems and Computable Functions -- Unsolvable Problems -- Computable Functions -- Introduction to Computational Complexity -- Measuring and Classifying Complexity -- Tractable and Intractable Problems.

9780071289429


Sequential machine theory.
Computable functions.

QA267.5 M37 2011