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Complexity, Logic, and Recursion Theory
Integrates two classical approaches to computability. Offers detailed coverage of recent research at the interface of logic, computability theory, nd theoretical computer science. Presents new, never-before-published results and provides informtion not easily accessible in the literature.
380 pages, Hardcover
First published February 4, 1997
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October 3, 2008
2008-09-24, Amazon. This $200 monstrosity, said to be the most exciting thing in FoC since Scott Aaronson's dissertation, suddenly showed up on Amazon for $25 from three sellers -- I swear to god, the used book racket's running the same software the QCF (qualitative and computational finance, aka doing ODE's (ordinary differential equations) 22 hours a day for three-quarters of a million per annum from goldman sachs or merrill lynch...well, maybe not ML anymore, har de har har) guys wrote for the stock market racket, likely purchased from the Ukranian code repackaging scene.
Well, I just got my ass handed to me by a textbook in a way I've not experienced for several years. I quite honestly have precious little idea what this book is about, despite having leafed through it for an hour and spent some time frontloading concepts. Dammit, I hate knowing there's people this much better-trained and intelligent than me regarding any area of computer science, grrrrrrrrr! For whatever it's worth, things did look fairly well put-together for anyone who speaks largely in terms of Komolgorov complexity algebras (I was fine up until the "algebras of complexity" there, at which point my brain melted). Damnit damnit damnit why am I not smarter? [froth]
Well, I just got my ass handed to me by a textbook in a way I've not experienced for several years. I quite honestly have precious little idea what this book is about, despite having leafed through it for an hour and spent some time frontloading concepts. Dammit, I hate knowing there's people this much better-trained and intelligent than me regarding any area of computer science, grrrrrrrrr! For whatever it's worth, things did look fairly well put-together for anyone who speaks largely in terms of Komolgorov complexity algebras (I was fine up until the "algebras of complexity" there, at which point my brain melted). Damnit damnit damnit why am I not smarter? [froth]
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