MATH 4805 [0.5 credit] Theory of Automata (Honours)
Finite automata and regular expressions, properties of regular sets, context-free grammars, pushdown automata, deterministic context-free languages. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy. Undecidability, intractable problems.
Also listed as COMP 4805.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 3106 or MATH 3158 or MATH 3855 or permission of the School.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as MATH 5605, for which additional credit is precluded.
Lectures three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 3106 or MATH 3158 or MATH 3855 or permission of the School.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as MATH 5605, for which additional credit is precluded.
Lectures three hours a week.