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While I was visiting Boston University during the 1996-97 academic year, I noticed a small book, written in German, on a shelf in Steve Homer's office. Curious, I borrowed it for my train ride home and began reading one of the chapters. I liked the style and format of the book so much that over the course of the next few months I frequently found myself reaching for it and working through one chapter or another. This was my introduction to Peden der Theoretischen Informatik. A few of my colleagues had also seen the book. They also found it inter­ esting, but most of them did not read German well enough to read more than small portions of it enjoyably. I hope that the English version will rectify this situation, and that many will enjoy (and learn from) the English version as much as I enjoyed the German version. The front matter of this book says that it has been ""translated, revised, and expanded."" I should perhaps say a few words about each of these tasks. In translating the book, Ihave tried as much as possible to retain the feel of the original, which is somewhat less formal and impersonal than a typical text book yet relatively concise. I certainly hope that the ""pleasure of the pursuit of understanding"" has not gotten lost in the translation.

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Author:   Uwe Schöning ,  R. Pruim ,  Randall J. Pruim
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.511kg
ISBN:  

9783642643521

ISBN 10:   3642643523
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   19 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Fundamental Definitions and Results.- 1. The Priority Method.- 2. Hilbert’s Tenth Problem.- 3. The Equivalence Problem for LOOP(l)- and LOOP(2)-Programs.- 4. The Second LBA Problem.- 5. LOGSPACE, Random Walks onGraphs, and Universal Traversal Sequences.- 6. Exponential Lower Bounds for the Length of Resolution Proofs.- 7. Spectral Problems and Descriptive Complexity Theory.- 8. Kolmogorov Complexity, the Universal Distribution, and Worst-Case vs. Average-Case.- 9. Lower Bounds via Kolmogorov Complexity.- 10. PAC-Learning and Occam’s Razor.- 11. Lower Bounds for the Parity Function.- 12. The Parity Function Again.- 13. The Complexity of Craig Interpolants Ill.- 14. Equivalence Problems and Lower Bounds for Branching Programs.- 15. The Berman-Hartmanis Conjecture and Sparse Sets.- 16. Collapsing Hierarchies.- 17. Probabilistic Algorithms, Probability Amplification, and the Recycling of Random Numbers.- 18. The BP Operator and Graph Isomorphism.- 19. The BP-Operator and the Power of Counting Classes.- 20. Interactive Proofs and Zero Knowledge.- 21. IP = PSPACE.- 22. P ? NP with probability 1.- 23. Superconcentrators and the Marriage Theorem.- 24. The Pebble Game.- 25. Average-Case Complexity.- 26. Quantum Search Algorithms.- Solutions.

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