Introduction to Formal Language And Automata

An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata, Fourth Edition provides an excellent presentation of the material that is essential to an introductory theory of computation course. This fourth edition offers expanded and simplified discussions of some of the more difficult ideas and constructions that often frustrate students. The author offers an intuitive motivation for proofs, and avoids excessive mathematical detail, so that students can focus on and understand the underlying detail. New end-of-chapter exercises, varying in degree of difficulty, are designed to illuminate and illustrate key concepts and call on students' problem-solving ability.Linz, Peter is the author of 'Introduction to Formal Language And Automata ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780763737986 and ISBN 0763737984.