Theory of Computation Tutorials

Introduction to the Theory of Computing

This pdf includes overview and mathematical foundations, Regular operations and regular expressions, Proving languages to be nonregular, Further discussion of regular languages, Parse trees, ambiguity, and Chomsky normal form, Pushdown automata, Turing machines, Variants of Turing machines, Stack machines, Universal Turing machines and undecidable languages, Further discussion of computability.

Author(s): University of Waterloo

227 Pages

Introduction to Theory of Computation by Wikiversity

This note describes the following topics: Finite State Machines, Closure and Nondeterminism, The Pumping Lemma, Minimizing FSMs, Context Free Languages, CFLs and compilers, Recitation, Pushdown Machines, CFGs and NPDMs, CYK algorithm, Undecidability and CFLs, Turing Machines, Halting Problem, Decidability, Complexity Theory, Quantified Boolean Formula, Savitch's Theorem, Space Hierarchy, Recursion Theorem.

Author(s): Wikiversity

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Introduction to Computational Theory Lecture Notes

This note covers the following topics: Languages, Finite Automata, Regular Languages and Sets, Context-Free Grammars, Pushdown Automata and Context-Free Languages, Turing Machines, The Chomsky Hierarchy, P and NP.

Author(s): BYU Computer Science Department

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Theory of Computation Tutorials

This note explains the theoretical computer science areas of formal languages and automata, computability and complexity. Topics covered include: regular and context-free languages, finite automata and pushdown automata, Turing machines, Church's thesis, computability - halting problem, solvable and unsolvable problems, space and time complexity, classes P, NP and PSPACE, NP-Completenes.

Author(s): The Australian National University, Canberra

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Theory of Computation Lectures

This note covers the following topics: Sets, functions and other preliminaries, Formal Languages, Finite Automata , Regular Expressions, Turing Machines, Context-Free Languages, Rice's Theorem, Time complexity, NP-Completeness, Space Complexity , Log Space, Oracle machines and Turing Reducibility, Probabilistic Complexity, Approximation and Optimisation, Complexity Hierarchy Theorems.

Author(s): UNSW Sydne

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Notes on Computation Theory

This course is an introduction to the Theory of Computation. Topics covered includes: Background Mathematics, Models of Computation, Context-Free Grammars, Automata, The Chomsky Hierarchy.

Author(s): Konrad Slind

231 Pages

Notes on Computational Complexity Theory

This note provides an introduction to the theory of computational complexity. Topics covered includes: Models of computation, Time and space complexity classes, Nonterminism and NP, Diagonalization, Oracles and relativization, Alternation, Space complexity, Natural proofs, Randomized classes, Counting classes, Descriptive complexity and Interactive proofs.

Author(s): James Aspnes

180 Pages

Introduction to Theory of Computation

This is a free textbook for an undergraduate course on the Theory of Computation, which have been teaching at Carleton University since 2002.Topics covered includes: Finite Automata and Regular Languages, Context-Free Languages, Turing Machines and the Church-Turing Thesis, Decidable and Undecidable Languages and Complexity Theory.

Author(s): Anil Maheshwari and ichiel Smid

246 Pages

Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science Lecture Notes

This course note provides a challenging introduction to some of the central ideas of theoretical computer science. It attempts to present a vision of computer science beyond computers: that is, CS as a set of mathematical tools for understanding complex systems such as universes and minds.

Author(s): Prof. Scott Aaronson

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ConstructiveComputation Theory

This is an executable course note implemented in Pidgin ML, which is a core subset of the Objective Caml programming language under the so-called revised syntax.

Author(s): Gerard Huet

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