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Limits of computation: from a programming perspective
Contents:
1. Limits? What Limits?
2. Problems and Effective Procedures
3. The WHILE-Language
4. Semantics of WHILE
5. Extensions of WHILE
6. Programs as Data Objects
7. A Self-interpreter for WHILE
8. An Undecidable (Non-computable) Problem
9. More Undecidable Problems
10. Self-referencing Programs
11. The Church-Turing Thesis
12. Measuring Time Usage
13. Complexity Classes
14. Robustness of P
15. Hierarchy Theorems
16. Famous Problems in P
17. Common Problems Not Known to Be in P
18. The One-Million-Dollar Question
19. How Hard Is a Problem?
20. Complete Problems
21. How to Solve NP-Complete Problems
22. Molecular Computing
23. Quantum Computing
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