TY - BOOK AU - Moore,Cristopher AU - Mertens,Stephan TI - The nature of computation SN - 9780199233212 (acidfree paper) U1 - 511.3/52 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Oxford [England], New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Computational complexity N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 945-973) and index; Prologue -- The basics -- Insights and algorithms -- Needles in a haystack : the class NP -- Who is the hardest one of all? : NP-completeness -- The deep question : P vs. NP -- The grand unified theory of computation -- Memory, paths, and games -- Optimization and approximation -- Randomized algorithms -- Interaction and pseudorandomness -- Random walks and rapid mixing -- Counting, sampling, and statistical physics -- When formulas freeze : phase transitions in computation -- Quantum computation -- Mathematical tools ER -