Thanks.
Interestingly enough, I am actually doing a joint honours course, my
second major being Computer Science. Unfortunately, the CS course at my
university isn't up to much so our automata theory course essentially
avoided automata theory.
I will check out the book.
thanks
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 04:16, Jim Andrews wrote:
> hi robert
>
> since you are a student of math and also of poetry, let me recommend a
> course which may be taught at your school in the computer science
> department. in canada, it is typically taken by computer science majors in
> their third year. when i took it, the course was called 'language and the
> theory of computation' (there is a book by the same name). sometimes the
> course is just called 'automata theory' or something like that. computer
> science students typically hate it because it's a math course that proceeds
> via definition, lemma, theorem, corollary. but a student of math and poetry
> would love it. it threads language and mathematics together. also, if one
> takes the computer seriously as art media, this course is useful in what it
> teaches about the nature of computers. some think they are fancy
> typewriters. or fancy mixing boards or whatever. this course looks at the
> theoretical limits in a rigorous way, dispels such illusions. indeed, the
> material is perhaps more important to artists who use computers than it is
> to a typical programmer. as such, it is a secret, intense course in the
> poetics of computer-based art.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
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