Lewis, Harry R.

Elements of the theory of computation / Harry R. Lewis, Christos H. Papadimitriou. - 2nd ed. - Upper Saddle River ; London : Prentice-Hall International, c1997. - 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sets, Relations, and Languages. 2. Finite Automata. 3. Context-free Languages. 4. Turing Machines. 5. Undecidability. 6. Computational Complexity. 7. NP-completeness. Index.

Appropriate for senior and graduate level courses in Computer Science Theory, Automata, and Theory of Computation. This is the long awaited Second Edition of Lewis and Papadimitriou's best-selling theory of computation text. In this substantially modified edition, the authors have enhanced the clarity of their presentation by making the material more accessible to a broader undergraduate audience with no special mathematical experience.

0132727412 (International edition) 8178084872 (Indian rpt., low price ed.)


Machine theory.
Formal languages.
Computational complexity.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

QA267 / .L49 1998