The P=Np Question And G?El's Lost Letter

? DoesP=NP. In just ?ve symbols Dick Karp ?n 1972?aptured one of the deepest and most important questions of all time. When he ?rst wrote his famous paper, I think it's fair to say he did not know the depth and importance of his question. Now over three decades later, we know P=NP is central to our understanding of compu- tion, it is a very hard problem, and its resolution will have potentially tremendous consequences. This book is a collection of some of the most popular posts from my blog?Godel ?Lost Letter andP=NP?hich I started in early 2009. The main thrust of the blog, especially when I started, was to explore various aspects of computational complexity around the famousP=NP question. As I published posts I branched out and covered additional material, sometimes a timely event, sometimes a fun idea, sometimes a new result, and sometimes an old result. I have always tried to make the posts readable by a wide audience, and I believe I have succeeded in doing this.

• • Author: Richard J. Lipton
• • Publisher: Springer
• • Publication Date: Oct 20, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 252 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1489992723
• • ISBN-13: 9781489992727