Theory of Computation

by Vivek Kulkarni

The book begins with basic concepts such as symbols, alphabets, sets, relations, graphs, strings, and languages. It then delves into the important topics including separate chapters on finite state machine, regular expressions, grammars, pushdown stack, Turing machine, parsing techniques, Post machine, undecidability, and complexity of problems. A chapter on production systems encompasses a computational model which is different from the Turing model, called Markov and labelled Markov algorithms. At the end, the chapter on implementations provides implementation of some key concepts especially related to regular languages using C program codes.

A highly detailed pedagogy entailing plenty of solved examples, figures, notes, flowcharts, and end-chapter exercises makes the text student-friendly and easy to understand.

560 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 2013

Reviews

[Mayur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

[Gauri]

This book was truly knowledgeable.

[Akhilesh · Rating 1 out of 5]

So lenthy process to read a book and finally i can't read my book and going to another one...I hate it

[Yashashri]

want to read this book.