Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation: Introduction (2nd Edition)

Author: Hopcroft
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Renowned authors John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman have once again collaborated on this classic book, updating it more than 30 years after its first edition. The authors continue to introduce formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity theory to readers in a concise and straightforward manner. This book is used as a textbook or recommended reference for computational theory courses by many famous universities around the world. It is also suitable as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in computer science.
Features of the Book:
- Few formal content, making it easier for undergraduates to understand;
- Emphasizes modern applications of the theory;
- Uses numerous diagrams to illustrate concepts;
- Adds more details and intuitive explanations in definitions and proofs;
- Provides supplementary materials in special text boxes that may be useful to readers;
- Offers a variety of challenging exercises for readers;
- Presents graphical notations for PDAs and Turing machines;
- Each chapter includes numerous examples and exercises to help readers confirm and deepen their understanding.
This book is a classic work on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity. It covers topics such as finite automata, regular expressions and languages, properties of regular languages, context-free grammars and context-free languages, pushdown automata, properties of context-free languages, Turing machines, undecidability, and hard problems. The book uses many details and intuitive explanations in definitions and proofs, employs diagrams to clarify concepts, and includes a variety of examples and exercises of varying difficulty to help readers confirm and deepen their understanding. This book is suitable as a textbook and teaching reference for computational theory courses for senior undergraduate and graduate students in computer science.