In computability theory a numbering is the assignment of natural numbers to a set of objects such as functions, rational numbers, graphs, or words in some...
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Computability theory, also known as recursion theory, is a branch of mathematical logic, computer science, and the theory of computation that originated...
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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...
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whose table definitions require a database design. In computability theory, the simplest numbering scheme is the assignment of natural numbers to a set...
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Recursive Functions and Effective Computability, MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68052-1 S. Barry Cooper (2004). Computability Theory. Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN 1-58488-237-9...
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Stoltenberg-Hansen, V.; Tucker, J.V. (1999). "Computable Rings and Fields". In Griffor, E.R. (ed.). Handbook of Computability Theory. Elsevier. pp. 363–448. ISBN 978-0-08-053304-9...
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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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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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and completeness properties of formal systems. In computability theory, the term "Gödel numbering" is used in settings more general than the one described...
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In computability theory, a set S of natural numbers is called computably enumerable (c.e.), recursively enumerable (r.e.), semidecidable, partially decidable...
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In computability theory, admissible numberings are enumerations (numberings) of the set of partial computable functions that can be converted to and from...
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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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Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions. Number theorists study prime numbers...
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Church–Turing thesis (redirect from Church–Turing thesis (complexity 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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analysis of algorithms and computability theory. A key distinction between analysis of algorithms and computational complexity theory is that the former is...
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contradiction. The logic involved is closer to proof theory than to that of computability theory and computable functions. It is rather loosely conjectured that...
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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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Primitive recursive function (category Computability theory)
In computability theory, a primitive recursive function is, roughly speaking, a function that can be computed by a computer program whose loops are all...
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Counting problem (complexity) (redirect from Counting problem (computability theory))
In computational complexity theory and computability theory, a counting problem is a type of computational problem. If R is a search problem then c R...
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Computable model theory is a branch of model theory which deals with questions of computability as they apply to model-theoretical structures. Computable...
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In computability theory, index sets describe classes of computable functions; specifically, they give all indices of functions in a certain class, according...
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in this theory, the existence of a surjection from I onto S need not imply the existence of an injection from S into I. In computability theory one often...
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In computability theory two sets A , B {\displaystyle A,B} of natural numbers are computably isomorphic or recursively isomorphic if there exists a total...
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Undecidable problem (category Computability theory)
In computability theory and computational complexity theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem for which it is proved to be impossible to construct...
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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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Turing machine (redirect from Universal computing machine)
machines has yielded many insights into computer science, computability theory, and complexity theory. In his 1948 essay, "Intelligent Machinery", Turing wrote...
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Mathematical logic (section Set theory and paradoxes)
Major subareas include model theory, proof theory, set theory, and recursion theory (also known as computability theory). Research in mathematical logic...
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Halting problem (category Computability theory)
In computability theory, the halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the...
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In computability theory, two disjoint sets of natural numbers are called computably inseparable or recursively inseparable if they cannot be "separated"...
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Kleene's recursion theorem (category Computability theory)
In computability theory, Kleene's recursion theorems are a pair of fundamental results about the application of computable functions to their own descriptions...
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