A concise introduction to languages and machines

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parkes, Alan (Author)
Format: Book
Published: London : Springer , c2007
Series:Undergraduate topics in computer science
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Elements of formal language
  • 3. Syntax, semantics and ambiguity
  • 4. Regular language and finite states Recognisers
  • 5. Context free languages and pushdown recognisers
  • 6. Important features of regular and context free language
  • 7. Phrase structure languages and turing machines
  • 8. Finite state transducers
  • 9. Turing machine and computers
  • 10. Turing's thesis and the universality of the turing machine
  • 11. Computability, solvability and halting problem
  • 12. Dimensions and computation