Cristopher Moore (Santa Fe Institute ), Stephan Mertens (Otto-von-Guerick Institute of Theoretical Physics

Gebundenes Buch

The Nature of Computation

Beschreibung

Why are some problems easy to solve, while others seem nearly impossible? What can we compute with a given amount of time or memory, and what cannot be computed at all? How will quantum physics change the landscape of computation? This book gives a playful and accessible introduction to the deep ideas of theoretical computer science.

Autor

Cristopher Moore graduated from Northwestern University with honors in 1986, at the age of 18, with a B.A. in Mathematics, Physics, and Integrated Science. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University at the age of 23. After a postdoc at the Santa Fe Institute, he joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico, where he holds joint appointments in Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy. He has written over 90 papers, on topics ranging from undecidability in dynamical systems, to quantum computing, to phase transitions in NP-complete problems, to the analysis of social and biological networks. Stephan Mertens got his Diploma in Physics in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1991, both from Georg-August University Göttingen. He holds scholarships from the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes", Germany's most prestigious organisation sponsoring the academically gifted. After his Ph.D. he worked for three years in the software industry before he joined the faculty of Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg as a theoretical physicist. His research focuses on disordered systems in statistical mechanics, average case complexity of algorithms, and parallel computing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1008
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 200mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 2316g
• ISBN-13: 9780199233212
• ISBN-10: 0199233217
• Artikelnr.: 23464260