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THE COMPLEXITY OF COMPUTING

Written by John E. Savage
Published by John Wiley & Sons in 1976
ISBN: 0471755176

THE COMPLEXITY OF COMPUTING
Written by John E. Savage.
Stock no. 812285
1st. 1976. Hardback. Very good condition.

Many important computing systems and programs are sufficiently complex that they tax our powers of comprehension, and yet we must attain some satisfactory understanding of these systems and programs before we can be reasonably confident that we are making efficient use of them. This book explicitly recognizes the complexity of computing. Brown cloth, black titles. xiii and 391 pages including index. ISBN: 0471755176. Ex-lib. Minimal stamps, remains of library label to front endpaper. Text block browned. Else contents clean.

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Front cover

Cover of THE COMPLEXITY OF COMPUTING by John E. Savage

Contents

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Combinational Complexity of Functions
  • Chapter 3: Combinational Complexity and Formula Size
  • Chapter 4: Sequential Machines
  • Chapter 5: Turing Machines
  • Chapter 6: General Purpose Computers
  • Chapter 7: Storage-Time Tradeoffs
  • Chapter 8: Combinatorial and Algebraic Problems