Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
by Susan Rodger
Publisher: Duke University 1998
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These lecture notes present an introduction to theoretical computer science including studies of abstract machines, the language hierarchy from regular languages to recursively enumerable languages, noncomputability and complexity theory.
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