CS 4805 — Fundamentals of Complexity Theory

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureOnlineOnline

Reviews basic material such as automata, Turing machines, (un)decidability, time complexity, P vs. NP, and NP-completeness. Studies core topics in computational complexity, including time and space complexity, polynomial hierarchy, circuit complexity, probabilistic computation, interactive proofs, and hardness of approximation. Optional topics may include Gödel's incompleteness theorem, Kolgomorov complexity, cryptography, quantum computing, communication complexity, lower bounds, or pseudorandomness.

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