Languages and machines : an introduction to the theory of computer science / Thomas A. Sudkamp.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 641-647) and index.

Mathematical preliminaries -- Languages -- Context-free grammars -- Normal forms for context-free grammars -- Finite automata -- Properties of regular languages -- Pushdown automata and context-free languages -- Turing machines -- Turing computable functions -- The Chomsky hierarchy -- Decision problems and the church-turing thesis -- Undecidability -- Mu-recursive functions -- Time complexity -- P, NP and Cook's theorem -- NP-complete problems -- Additional complexity classes -- Parsing : an introduction -- LL(k) grammars -- LR(k) grammars.