TY - BOOK AU - Rosenberg, Aarnold L. TI - The pillars of computation theory: state, encoding, nondeterminism SN - 9780387096384 U1 - 511.352 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Computational complexity KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Algorithms KW - Mathematics N1 - Pt. I. Prolegomena. Introduction -- Mathematical preliminaries -- pt. II. State. Online automata: exemplars of "state" -- Finite automata and regular languages -- Applications of the Myhill-Nerode theorem -- Enrichment topics -- pt. III. Encoding. Countability and uncountability: the precursors of "encoding" -- Enrichment topic: "efficient" pairing functions, with applications -- Computability theory -- pt. IV. Nondeterminism. Nondeterministic online automata -- Nondeterministic FAs -- Nondeterminism in computability theory -- Complexity theory ER -