P, NP, and NP-Completeness: The Basics of Complexity Theory
by Oded Goldreich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2010
ISBN/ASIN: 0521122546
ISBN-13: 9780521122542
Number of pages: 190
Description:
The focus of this book is on the P-vs-NP Question, which is the most fundamental question of computer science, and on the theory of NP-completeness, which is its most influential theoretical discovery. The book also provides adequate preliminaries regarding computational problems and computational models.
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