The Golden Ticket : P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
Lance. Fortnow
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (189 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Chapter 7: Proving P ≠ NP; Preface; Chapter 1: The Golden Ticket; Chapter 2: The Beautiful World; Chapter 3: P and NP; Chapter 4: The Hardest Problems in NP; Chapter 5: The Prehistory of P versus NP; Chapter 6: Dealing with Hardness; Chapter 8: Secrets; Chapter 9: Quantum; Chapter 10 :The Future; Acknowledgments; Chapter Notes and Sources; Index. - The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and gives examples of the problem from a variety of disciplines, including economics, physics, and biology. He explores problems that capture the full difficulty of the P-NP dilemma, fro
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| Emner | Computer algorithms
NP-complete problems Algebra Mathematics Vis mer... Physical Sciences & Mathematics
matematikk logikk bevisteori teori mathematics maths logicproof theory problem p-np |
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| ISBN | 9780691156491
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