I exposit Turing's 1936 theory of computability and unsolvability, as subsequently developed by Kleene and Post. This theory is of the essence in theoretical computer science and in the study of unsolvable mathematical problems. Second, I provide an introductory account of a research area which is currently very active: algorithmic randomness and Kolmogorov complexity.
Computability, Unsolvability, Randomness

Publication Date: February 05, 2009
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University
Pages: 151
Format: ebook
Author: Stephen G. Simpson