Computability by Nigel Cutland

Computability by Nigel Cutland

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What can computers do in principle? What are their inherent theoretical limitations? The theoretical framework which enables such questions to be answered has been developed over the last fifty years from the idea of a computable function - a function whose values can be calculated in an automatic way. This book is an introduction to computability (recursive) theory.

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Computability by Nigel Cutland

What can computers do in principle? What are their inherent theoretical limitations? The theoretical framework which enables such questions to be answered has been developed over the last fifty years from the idea of a computable function - a function whose values can be calculated in an automatic way. This book is an introduction to computability (recursive) theory.
"DrCutland has produced here an excellent and much needed textbook which will undoubtedly help to establish recursion theory as a more widely taught branch of mainstream mathematics." Mathematics & Physics
Cutland, Nigel J; Neves, Vitor; Oliveira, A F; Sousa-Pinto, Jose
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ISBN 13 9780521294652
ISBN 10 0521294657
Title Computability
Author Nigel Cutland
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1980-06-19
Number of pages 264
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