Overview
- Extremly well readable, transparent introduction to TCS
- All basic ideas and concepts (proofs) are first developed intuitively in context with already known facts and then formalized into detail
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series (TTCS)
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Keywords
- Algorithmics
- Communication
- Complexity
- Computability
- Cryptography
- Hard problems
- Interconnection networks
- algorithm analysis and problem complexity
About this book
The aim of this textbook is not only to provide an elegant route through the theoretical fundamentals of computer science, but also to show that theoretical computer science is a fascinating discipline, full of spectacular contributions and miracles, and depth in research, and yet directly applicable. Thus, we aim to excite people about its study. To achieve these goals we do not hesitate to take a lot of space to present motivations, and especially to give the informal development of crucial ideas and concepts and their transparent, but rigorous presentation.
An additional aim is to present the development of the computer scientist's way of thinking, so we do not restrict this book to the classic areas like computability and automata theory but we also present fundamental concepts such as approximation and randomization in algorithmics and we explain the basic ideas of cryptography and interconnection network design.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Also Author of our books "Communication Complexity and Parallel Computing", 57459-X and "Algorithmics for Hard Problems" 2nd ed., 44134-4; Advisory Board member of the EATCS series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theoretical Computer Science
Book Subtitle: Introduction to Automata, Computability, Complexity, Algorithmics, Randomization, Communication, and Cryptography
Authors: Juraj Hromkovič
Series Title: Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-14015-3Published: 18 September 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05729-8Published: 06 December 2010
Series ISSN: 1862-4499
Series E-ISSN: 1862-4502
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 313