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- From: peyote@umiacs.umd.edu (Gary W. Flake)
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- Subject: Various theory references here.
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 01:05:17 GMT
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- Some people have asked me for some theory text references. Enough
- have that I thought I'd post a list here.
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- For a general introduction to the various types of machines in
- the computing hierarchy see Minsky, "Computation: Finite and Infinite
- Machines." Note that some material here is dated, but I am very fond
- of Minsky's writing style. Also, there are some interesting chapters
- (one on neural networks) that have material you wont find in any other
- single book.
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- More current general introductions can be found in Hopcroft and
- Ullman, "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation,"
- and Lewis and Papadimitrou's, "Elements of the Theory of Computation."
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- For recursion theory (advance introduction) the classic (if somewhat
- dense) in this field is Davis, "Computability and Unsolvability." You
- can find this in a Dover edition for probably less than ten bucks -- a
- steal!
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- For NP-Completeness, the most important book is Garey and Johnson's
- "Computers and Intractability." This is a recipe book of known
- NP-Complete problems, and it also provides clues to some unsolved
- problems.
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- All of the above books touch on complexity. I prefer the treatment
- that algorithm texts give the subject. In this category I like
- Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest's "Introduction to Algorithms." This
- book is huge, filled with a great collection of algorithms, and
- contains a very good introduction to amortized analysis.
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- Regards,
- Gary
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