Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory

by Nigel Cutland

Book Overview

What can computers do in principle? What are their inherent theoretical limitations? These are questions to which computer scientists must address themselves. The theoretical framework which enables such questions to be answered has been developed over the last fifty years from the idea of a computable function: intuitively a function whose values can be calculated in an effective or automatic way. This book is an introduction to computability theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521294657
• ISBN13: 9780521294652
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"