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Description
Theory of Computation (also offered as MATH 4P61 ) Regular languages and finite state machines: deterministic and non-deterministic machines, Kleene's theorem, the pumping lemma, Myhill-Nerode Theorem and decidable questions. Context-free languages: generation by context-free grammars and acceptance by pushdown automata, pumping lemma, closure properties, decidability. Turing machines: recursively enumerable languages, universal Turing machines, halting problem and other undecidable questions. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COSC (single or combined), BCB, CAST, CNET, GAMP and NEUR Neurocomputing stream majors. Prerequisite(s): MATH 1P67 (minimum 60 percent) and three and one-half COSC credits. Note: MATH students may take this course with permission of the Mathematics Department. This course may be offered in multiple modes of delivery. The method of delivery will be listed on the academic timetable, in the applicable term.
Prerequisites
- Prerequisite(s): MATH 1P67 (minimum 60 percent) and three and one-half COSC credits.
Conditions and arrangements
- Restriction: open to COSC (single or combined), BCB, CAST, CNET, GAMP and NEUR Neurocomputing stream majors.
- Prerequisite(s): MATH 1P67 (minimum 60 percent) and three and one-half COSC credits.
- Note: MATH students may take this course with permission of the Mathematics Department. This course may be offered in multiple modes of delivery. The method of delivery will be listed on the academic timetable, in the applicable term.
Reference text in its original language
Theory of Computation (also offered as MATH 4P61 ) Regular languages and finite state machines: deterministic and non-deterministic machines, Kleene's theorem, the pumping lemma, Myhill-Nerode Theorem and decidable questions. Context-free languages: generation by context-free grammars and acceptance by pushdown automata, pumping lemma, closure properties, decidability. Turing machines: recursively enumerable languages, universal Turing machines, halting problem and other undecidable questions. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COSC (single or combined), BCB, CAST, CNET, GAMP and NEUR Neurocomputing stream majors. Prerequisite(s): MATH 1P67 (minimum 60 percent) and three and one-half COSC credits. Note: MATH students may take this course with permission of the Mathematics Department. This course may be offered in multiple modes of delivery. The method of delivery will be listed on the academic timetable, in the applicable term.
- Prerequisite(s): MATH 1P67 (minimum 60 percent) and three and one-half COSC credits.
- Restriction: open to COSC (single or combined), BCB, CAST, CNET, GAMP and NEUR Neurocomputing stream majors.
- Note: MATH students may take this course with permission of the Mathematics Department. This course may be offered in multiple modes of delivery. The method of delivery will be listed on the academic timetable, in the applicable term.
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