Algorithms: Main Ideas and Applications
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-4256-9 (ISBN)
Today the notion of the algorithm is familiar not only to mathematicians. It forms a conceptual base for information processing; the existence of a corresponding algorithm makes automatic information processing possible. The theory of algorithms (together with mathematical logic ) forms the the oretical basis for modern computer science (see [Sem Us 86]; this article is called "Mathematical Logic in Computer Science and Computing Practice" and in its title mathematical logic is understood in a broad sense including the theory of algorithms). However, not everyone realizes that the word "algorithm" includes a transformed toponym Khorezm. Algorithms were named after a great sci entist of medieval East, is al-Khwarizmi (where al-Khwarizmi means "from Khorezm"). He lived between c. 783 and 850 B.C. and the year 1983 was chosen to celebrate his 1200th birthday. A short biography of al-Khwarizmi compiled in the tenth century starts as follows: "al-Khwarizmi. His name is Muhammad ibn Musa, he is from Khoresm" (cited according to [Bul Rozen Ah 83, p.8]).
Notation and Terminology.- 1.0 Preliminary notions of the theory of algorithms: constructive objects and aggregates; local properties and local actions.- 1.1 The general notion of an algorithm as an independent (separate) concept.- 1.2 Representative computational models.- 1.3 The general notion of a calculus as an independent (separate) concept.- 1.4 Representative generating models.- 1.5 Interrelations between algorithms and calculuses.- 1.6 Time and Space as complexities of computation and generation.- 1.7 Computable functions and generable sets; decidable sets; enumerable sets.- 1.8 The concept of a ?-recursive function.- 1.9 Possibility of an arithmetical and even Diophantine representation of any enumerable set of natural numbers.- 1.10 Construction of an undecidable generable set.- 1.11 Post’s reducibility problem.- 1.12 The concept of a relative algorithm, or an oracle algorithm.- 1.13 The concept of a computable operation.- 1.14 The concept of a program; programs as objects of computation and generation.- 1.15 The concept of a numbering and the theory of numberings.- 1.16 First steps in the invariant, or machine-independent, theory of complexity of computations.- 1.17 The theory of complexity and entropy of constructive objects.- 1.18 Convenient computational models.- 2.1 Investigations of mass problems.- 2.2 Applications to the foundations of mathematics: constructive semantics.- 2.3 Applications to mathematical logic: formalized languages of logic and arithmetic.- 2.4 Computable analysis.- 2.5 Numbered structures.- 2.6 Applications to probability theory: definitions of a random sequence.- 2.7 Applications to information theory: the algorithmic approach to the concept of quantity of information.- 2.8 Complexity bounds for particular problems.- 2.9 Influenceof the theory of algorithms on algorithmic practice.- Appendix. Probabilistic Algorithms (How the Use of Randomness Makes Computations Shorter).- A.1 Preliminary remarks.- A.2 Main results.- A.3 Formal definitions.- References.- Author Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.12.2010 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Mathematics and Its Applications ; 251 |
| Zusatzinfo | XII, 270 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-481-4256-3 / 9048142563 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-481-4256-9 / 9789048142569 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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