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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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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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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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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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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In computability theory, many reducibility relations (also called reductions, reducibilities, and notions of reducibility) are studied. They are motivated...
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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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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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Joel David Hamkins (section Infinitary computability)
set theory and philosophy of set theory (particularly the idea of the set-theoretic multiverse), in computability theory, and in group theory. After...
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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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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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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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Outline of logic (section Computability theory)
rich theory that is still being actively researched. Alpha recursion theory Arithmetical set Church–Turing thesis Computability logic Computable function...
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Turing reduction (redirect from Relative computability)
In computability theory, a Turing reduction from a decision problem A {\displaystyle A} to a decision problem B {\displaystyle B} is an oracle machine...
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In computability theory, the theory of real computation deals with hypothetical computing machines using infinite-precision real numbers. They are given...
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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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natural-valued function. Computability theory is essentially based on natural numbers and natural (or integer) functions on them. In number theory, many arithmetic...
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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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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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In mathematics, computable measure theory is the part of computable analysis that deals with effective versions of measure theory. Jeremy Avigad (2012)...
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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 total...
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Turing completeness (redirect from Turing equivalence (theory of computation))
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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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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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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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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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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Admissible numbering (category Computability theory)
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, hyperarithmetic theory is a generalization of Turing computability. It has close connections with definability in second-order...
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List of undecidable problems (category Computability theory)
In computability theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem for which an effective method (algorithm) to derive the correct answer does not exist...
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