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1997 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Course Roadmap and Historical Perspective

Author : Dexter C. Kozen

Published in: Automata and Computability

Publisher: Springer New York

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The goal of this course is to understand the foundations of computation. We will ask some very basic questions, such as What does it mean for a function to be computable?Are there any noncomputable functions?How does computational power depend on programming constructs?a useful feature of the book: the exercises These questions may appear simple, but they are not. They have intrigued scientists for decades, and the subject is still far from closed.

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Title
Course Roadmap and Historical Perspective
Author
Dexter C. Kozen
Copyright Year
1997
Publisher
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1844-9_1