18.404J/6.840J The Theory of Computation(Fall 2020, MIT OCW). Instructor: Prof. Michael Sipser. This course emphasizes computability and computational complexity theory. Topics include regular and context-free languages, decidable and undecidable problems, reducibility, recursive function theory, time and space measures on computation, completeness, hierarchy theorems, inherently complex problems, oracles, probabilistic computation, and interactive proof systems.
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Quickly reviewed last lecture. Showed conversion of DFAs to regular expressions. Gave a method for proving languages not regular by using the pumping lemma and closure properties. Introduced context free grammars (CFGs).