University Catalog 2014-2015

University of Colorado Boulder

CSCI-3434 (3) Theory of Computation

Introduces the foundations of formal language theory, computability, and complexity. Shows relationship between automata and various classes of languages. Addresses the issue of which problems can be solved by computational means, and studies complexity of solutions. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of CSCI 3104 and CSCI 3155 (all minimum grade C-).