TY - BOOK ID - 8283631 TI - Micelles AU - Lindman, Björn AU - Wennerström, Håkan AU - Eicke, Hans-Friedrich PY - 1980 SN - 0387096388 9786613568779 0387096396 1280390859 3540096396 3540347488 PB - Berlin DB - UniCat KW - Computational complexity. KW - Electronic books. -- local. KW - Machine theory. KW - Computational complexity KW - Algebra KW - Mathematics - General KW - Mathematics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Abstract automata KW - Abstract machines KW - Automata KW - Mathematical machine theory KW - Complexity, Computational KW - Micelles. KW - Theoretische Informatik. KW - Computer science. KW - Computers. KW - Algorithms. KW - Mathematical logic. KW - Computer science KW - Computer Science. KW - Theory of Computation. KW - Mathematics of Computing. KW - Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. KW - Mathematical Logic and Foundations. KW - Computation by Abstract Devices. KW - Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages. KW - Mathematics. KW - Computer mathematics KW - Discrete mathematics KW - Electronic data processing KW - Algebra of logic KW - Logic, Universal KW - Mathematical logic KW - Symbolic and mathematical logic KW - Symbolic logic KW - Algebra, Abstract KW - Metamathematics KW - Set theory KW - Syllogism KW - Algorism KW - Arithmetic KW - Automatic computers KW - Automatic data processors KW - Computer hardware KW - Computing machines (Computers) KW - Electronic brains KW - Electronic calculating-machines KW - Electronic computers KW - Hardware, Computer KW - Computer systems KW - Cybernetics KW - Machine theory KW - Calculators KW - Cyberspace KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Foundations KW - 541.183 KW - 541.183 Contact systems. Adsorption. Surface chemistry KW - Contact systems. Adsorption. Surface chemistry KW - Surface chemistry KW - fysicochemie KW - Algorithms KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Recursive functions KW - Robotics KW - Information theory. KW - Computer software. KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. KW - Software, Computer KW - Communication theory KW - Communication KW - Computer science—Mathematics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8283631 AB - Computation theory is a discipline that strives to use mathematical tools and concepts in order to expose the nature of the activity that we call “computation” and to explain a broad range of observed computational phenomena. Why is it harder to perform some computations than others? Are the differences in difficulty that we observe inherent, or are they artifacts of the way we try to perform the computations? Even more basically: how does one reason about such questions? This book strives to endow upper-level undergraduate students and lower-level graduate students with the conceptual and manipulative tools necessary to make Computation theory part of their professional lives. The author tries to achieve this goal via three stratagems that set this book apart from most other texts on the subject. (1) The author develops the necessary mathematical concepts and tools from their simplest instances, so that the student has the opportunity to gain operational control over the necessary mathematics. (2) He organizes the development of the theory around the three “pillars” that give the book its name, so that the student sees computational topics that have the same intellectual origins developed in physical proximity to one another. (3) He strives to illustrate the “big ideas” that computation theory is built upon with applications of these ideas within “practical” domains that the students have seen elsewhere in their courses, in mathematics, in computer science, and in computer engineering. ER -