000 01018cam a2200181 a 4500
020 _a9780199233212
082 0 0 _a005.131
_bMOO/N
100 1 _aMoore Cristopher
100 1 _aMertens Stephan.
245 1 4 _aThe Nature of Computation
246 3 0 _aComputation
260 _aNew York
_bOxford University Press,
_c2011.
300 _axvii, 985 p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 945-973) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue -- The basics -- Insights and algorithms -- Needles in a haystack : the class NP -- Who is the hardest one of all? : NP-completeness -- The deep question : P vs. NP -- The grand unified theory of computation -- Memory, paths, and games -- Optimization and approximation -- Randomized algorithms -- Interaction and pseudorandomness -- Random walks and rapid mixing -- Counting, sampling, and statistical physics -- When formulas freeze : phase transitions in computation -- Quantum computation -- Mathematical tools.
650 0 _aComputational complexity.
942 _cBK
999 _c1990
_d1990