A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups

A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups
Author :
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 162
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781848009400
ISBN-13 : 1848009402
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups by : Ian M. Chiswell

Download or read book A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups written by Ian M. Chiswell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on notes for a master’s course given at Queen Mary, University of London, in the 1998/9 session. Such courses in London are quite short, and the course consisted essentially of the material in the ?rst three chapters, together with a two-hour lecture on connections with group theory. Chapter 5 is a considerably expanded version of this. For the course, the main sources were the books by Hopcroft and Ullman ([20]), by Cohen ([4]), and by Epstein et al. ([7]). Some use was also made of a later book by Hopcroft and Ullman ([21]). The ulterior motive in the ?rst three chapters is to give a rigorous proof that various notions of recursively enumerable language are equivalent. Three such notions are considered. These are: generated by a type 0 grammar, recognised by a Turing machine (deterministic or not) and de?ned by means of a Godel ̈ numbering, having de?ned “recursively enumerable” for sets of natural numbers. It is hoped that this has been achieved without too many ar- ments using complicated notation. This is a problem with the entire subject, and it is important to understand the idea of the proof, which is often quite simple. Two particular places that are heavy going are the proof at the end of Chapter 1 that a language recognised by a Turing machine is type 0, and the proof in Chapter 2 that a Turing machine computable function is partial recursive.


A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups Related Books

A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Ian M. Chiswell
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-14 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is based on notes for a master’s course given at Queen Mary, University of London, in the 1998/9 session. Such courses in London are quite short, an
A Second Course in Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jeffrey Shallit
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A textbook for a graduate course on formal languages and automata theory, building on prior knowledge of theoretical computer models.
An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Peter Linz
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An Introduction to Formal Languages & Automata provides an excellent presentation of the material that is essential to an introductory theory of computation cou
An Introduction to Formal Languages and Machine Computation
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Song Y. Yan
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: World Scientific

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a concise and modern introduction to Formal Languages and Machine Computation, a group of disparate topics in the theory of computation, whic
Groups, Languages and Automata
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Derek F. Holt
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A reference book discussing applications of formal language theory to group theory, particularly geometric and computational group theory.