Reviews for Unit 5 Resources A Changing World (Glencoe World History Journey Across Time The Early Ages)

The average rating for Unit 5 Resources A Changing World (Glencoe World History Journey Across Time The Early Ages) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-19 00:00:00 Lawrence Rankin I: First, let's get something out of the way: the following volume is even better. While Odifreddi does a fine job of introducing set-functional and set-theoretic groups, the next volume fleshes out the material in a way that seems much more intuitive. II: Recursion theory is fascinating. Prior to taking a course back in the autumn, I knew very little about it (outside of Grant and Ayer's work, which, by now, is hopelessly outdated). Our class was to use this book as a supplementary text (should we find ourselves moving too quickly through the main text, or if we wanted a more rigorous (and elegant!) vision of CRT that was decidedly less user-friendly. I found the main text (Olson) to be too stuffy (full of superfluous, seemingly useless information), so the Odifreddi was a pleasant change. III: Being the first volume, we're dealing with the foundations of the field. As I mentioned earlier, the second volume is the best place to start for someone already familiar with s-f/s-t groups. While it could serve as a refresher of sorts, one would be better off reviewing problem sets, consulting course notes, etc. Too much of it would seem introductory (which makes sense, because it is). IV: Coming from a physics and (pure) mathematics background, the thought of breaking into computer science was enticing, though I was hesitant, as I was already spread thin, and felt that it would be foolish to venture into a new, almost exotic field if I didn't have the time for thorough investigations. However, after a short period of deliberation, I decided to take the course (concurrently with a mathematical logic course, I might add), and it was worth it. V: The fluidity of the (apparent) overlapping of rigorous ('crystal box') mathematical logic and (clean, open-ended) theoretical computer science is a beautiful, beautiful thing. VI: Turing reductions are little jewels. Sealed boxes. VII: It's rather expensive, especially if you buy both volumes at once. The cost (and introductory nature) is the reason for the four stars. VIII: Minor issues aside, Odifreddi did a marvelous job here. Worthy of main text status, for sure.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-10-08 00:00:00 Christie Chase Wish I had this to prepare for the CS GRE come saturday, but even Amazon hasn't the power to get it to me by then. Oh well! I really doubt it (the test)'s going to get down and dirty into foundations of computation, but I've never even read Rogers's Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability, and found Sorbi too difficult to bother with at the time...:/ ugh!