Computability is the ability to solve a problem by an effective procedure. It is a key topic of the field of computability theory within mathematical logic...
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these areas, computability theory overlaps with proof theory and effective descriptive set theory. Basic questions addressed by computability theory include:...
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Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic...
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Computability logic (CoL) is a research program and mathematical framework for redeveloping logic as a systematic formal theory of computability, as opposed...
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Computable functions are the basic objects of study in computability theory. Informally, a function is computable if there is an algorithm that computes...
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Theory of computation (section Computability theory)
a Turing machine. Much of computability theory builds on the halting problem result. Another important step in computability theory was Rice's theorem...
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Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service...
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Quantum advantage comes in the form of time complexity rather than computability, and quantum complexity theory shows that some quantum algorithms are...
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In computability theory, a set of natural numbers is computable (or decidable or recursive) if there is an algorithm that computes the membership of every...
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Church–Turing thesis (category Computability theory)
In computability theory, the Church–Turing thesis (also known as computability thesis, the Turing–Church thesis, the Church–Turing conjecture, Church's...
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Computer science (redirect from Computing science)
can be computed and what amount of resources are required to perform those computations. In an effort to answer the first question, computability theory...
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adopted throughout mathematics. The study of computability came to be known as recursion theory or computability theory, because early formalizations by Gödel...
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Forcing in computability theory is a modification of Paul Cohen's original set-theoretic technique of forcing to deal with computability concerns. Conceptually...
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This is a list of computability and complexity topics, by Wikipedia page. Computability theory is the part of the theory of computation that deals with...
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Logics for computability are formulations of logic that capture some aspect of computability as a basic notion. This usually involves a mix of special...
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was introduced by Émile Borel in 1912, using the intuitive notion of computability available at the time. Equivalent definitions can be given using μ-recursive...
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Compute! (ISSN 0194-357X), often stylized as COMPUTE!, is an American home computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994. Its origins can be traced...
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Computability in Analysis and Physics is a monograph on computable analysis by Marian Pour-El and J. Ian Richards. It was published by Springer-Verlag...
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Decision problem (redirect from Word problem (computability))
In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a decision problem is a computational problem that can be posed as a yes–no question on a...
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Oracle machine (redirect from Oracle (computability))
In complexity theory and computability theory, an oracle machine is an abstract machine used to study decision problems. It can be visualized as a black...
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Reduction (complexity) (redirect from Reduction (computability))
In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a reduction is an algorithm for transforming one problem into another problem. A sufficiently...
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Numbering scheme (section Computing)
to transfer the idea of computability and related concepts, which are originally defined on the natural numbers using computable functions, to these different...
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In computability theory, the mortality problem is a decision problem related to the halting problem. For Turing machines, the halting problem can be stated...
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Decider (Turing machine) (redirect from Decider (computability theory))
In computability theory, a decider is a Turing machine that halts for every input. A decider is also called a total Turing machine as it represents a...
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specifically computability and set theory, an ordinal α {\displaystyle \alpha } is said to be computable or recursive if there is a computable well-ordering...
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A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed. While the individual components of a...
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1926 – July 17, 2015) was an American mathematician who worked in computability theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts...
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Turing completeness (section Computability theory)
In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a model of computation, a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or...
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In computability theory, many reducibility relations (also called reductions, reducibilities, and notions of reducibility) are studied. They are motivated...
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