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Understanding Computation - Pillars, Paradigms, Principles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Understanding Computation - Pillars, Paradigms, Principles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Texts in Computer Science
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Computation theory is a discipline that uses mathematical concepts
and tools to expose the nature of "computation" and to explain a
broad range of 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? How does one reason about such
questions? This unique textbook strives to endow students with
conceptual and manipulative tools necessary to make computation
theory part of their professional lives. The work achieves this
goal by means of three stratagems that set its approach apart from
most other texts on the subject. For starters, it develops the
necessary mathematical concepts and tools from the concepts'
simplest instances, thereby helping students gain operational
control over the required mathematics. Secondly, it organizes
development of theory around four "pillars," enabling students to
see computational topics that have the same intellectual origins in
physical proximity to one another. Finally, the text illustrates
the "big ideas" that computation theory is built upon with
applications of these ideas within "practical" domains in
mathematics, computer science, computer engineering, and even
further afield. Suitable for advanced undergraduate students and
beginning graduates, this textbook augments the "classical" models
that traditionally support courses on computation theory with novel
models inspired by "real, modern" computational topics,such as
crowd-sourced computing, mobile computing, robotic path planning,
and volunteer computing. Arnold L. Rosenberg is Distinguished Univ.
Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Lenwood S. Heath is Professor at Virgina Tech, Blacksburg, USA.
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