Fundamentals of Computing

05/13/2020

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by   Leonid A. Levin, et al.

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These are notes for a course aimed at introducing the undergraduates to basic concepts of Theory of Computation and provoking their interest in further study. Model-dependent effects are systematically ignored. Concrete computational problems are considered only as illustrations of general principles. The notes are skeletal: they do have (terse) proofs, but exercises, references, intuitive comments and examples are missing or inadequate. The notes can be used by an instructor designing a course or by students who either know the material and want to refresh the memory or are exceptionally bright and have access to an instructor for questions. Each subsection takes about a week of the course.