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2024/2025

Computability

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NI-VYC Z,ZK 4 2P+2C Czech
Course guarantor:
Jan Starý
Lecturer:
Jan Starý
Tutor:
Jan Starý
Supervisor:
Department of Applied Mathematics
Synopsis:

Classical theory of recursive functions and effective computability.

Requirements:

Elementary arithmetics, a basic course in mathematical logic.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction. Elementary recursive functions.

2. Primitive recursive functions. Ackermann function.

3. General recursive functions. Universal functions.

4. Partial recursive functions.

5. Turing machines.

6. The power of Turing machines.

7. Universal machine. Halting Problem.

8. The equivalence of Turing machines and recursive functions.

9. Arithmetics: coding the language.

10. Recursive axiomatization.

11. (In)completeness and (un)decidability.

12. Diagonal lemma, Gödel's theorem.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Elementary recursive functions.

2. Primitive recursive functions

3. General recursive functions.

4. Partial recursive functions.

5. Turing machines.

6. Programming Turing machines.

7. Programming Turing machines.

8. Programming Turing machines.

9. Gödel coding and decoding.

10. Decidability: examples.

11. Undecidability: examples.

12. Diagonalization.

Study Objective:

The basic formalizations of an „algorithm“ and elementary questions of computability.

Study materials:

Church: An unsolvable problem of elementary number theory

Church: A note on the Entscheidungsproblem

Davis: Computability and unsolvability

Enderton: Elements of Recursion Theory

Kleene: Introduction to Metamathematics

Rogers: Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability

Shoenfield: Mathematical Logic

Turing: On computable numbers

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