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The Foundations of Computability Theory [electronic resource] / by Borut Robič.

By: Robič, Borut [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015Edition: 1st ed. 2015.Description: XX, 331 p. 109 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783662448083.Subject(s): Computer science | Computers | Computer science -- Mathematics | Computer mathematics | Computer Science | Theory of Computation | Mathematics of Computing | Computational Mathematics and Numerical AnalysisAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 004.0151 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- The Foundational Crisis of Mathematics -- Formalism -- Hilbert's Attempt at Recovery -- The Quest for a Formalization -- The Turing Machine -- The First Basic Results -- Incomputable Problems -- Methods of Proving the Incomputability -- Computation with External Help -- Degrees of Unsolvability -- The Turing Hierarchy of Unsolvability -- The Class D of Degrees of Unsolvability -- C.E. Degrees and the Priority Method -- The Arithmetical Hierarchy -- Further Reading -- App. A, Mathematical Background -- References -- Index.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book offers an original and informative view of the development of fundamental concepts of computability theory. The treatment is put into historical context, emphasizing the motivation for ideas as well as their logical and formal development. In Part I the author introduces computability theory, with chapters on the foundational crisis of mathematics in the early twentieth century, and formalism; in Part II he explains classical computability theory, with chapters on the quest for formalization, the Turing Machine, and early successes such as defining incomputable problems, c.e. (computably enumerable) sets, and developing methods for proving incomputability; in Part III he explains relative computability, with chapters on computation with external help, degrees of unsolvability, the Turing hierarchy of unsolvability, the class of degrees of unsolvability, c.e. degrees and the priority method, and the arithmetical hierarchy. This is a gentle introduction from the origins of computability theory up to current research, and it will be of value as a textbook and guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the domains of computability theory and theoretical computer science.
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Introduction -- The Foundational Crisis of Mathematics -- Formalism -- Hilbert's Attempt at Recovery -- The Quest for a Formalization -- The Turing Machine -- The First Basic Results -- Incomputable Problems -- Methods of Proving the Incomputability -- Computation with External Help -- Degrees of Unsolvability -- The Turing Hierarchy of Unsolvability -- The Class D of Degrees of Unsolvability -- C.E. Degrees and the Priority Method -- The Arithmetical Hierarchy -- Further Reading -- App. A, Mathematical Background -- References -- Index.

This book offers an original and informative view of the development of fundamental concepts of computability theory. The treatment is put into historical context, emphasizing the motivation for ideas as well as their logical and formal development. In Part I the author introduces computability theory, with chapters on the foundational crisis of mathematics in the early twentieth century, and formalism; in Part II he explains classical computability theory, with chapters on the quest for formalization, the Turing Machine, and early successes such as defining incomputable problems, c.e. (computably enumerable) sets, and developing methods for proving incomputability; in Part III he explains relative computability, with chapters on computation with external help, degrees of unsolvability, the Turing hierarchy of unsolvability, the class of degrees of unsolvability, c.e. degrees and the priority method, and the arithmetical hierarchy. This is a gentle introduction from the origins of computability theory up to current research, and it will be of value as a textbook and guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the domains of computability theory and theoretical computer science.

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