LEADER 05379nam 2201429 a 450 001 9910818849503321 005 20210514021546.0 010 $a1-4008-4661-7 010 $a1-299-15656-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400846610 035 $a(CKB)2550000001001307 035 $a(EBL)1105994 035 $a(OCoLC)828869723 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000822001 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11448465 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822001 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10756188 035 $a(PQKB)11221407 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43258 035 $a(DE-B1597)453875 035 $a(OCoLC)979970303 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400846610 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1105994 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10658393 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL446906 035 $z(PPN)199244928 035 $a(PPN)187961360 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88838069 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1105994 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001001307 100 $a20121227d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe golden ticket $eP, NP, and the search for the impossible /$fLance Fortnow 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (189 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-17578-0 311 $a0-691-15649-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter 1 The Golden Ticket --$tChapter 2 The Beautiful World --$tChapter 3 P and NP --$tChapter 4 The Hardest Problems in NP --$tChapter 5 The Prehistory of P versus NP --$tChapter 6 Dealing with Hardness --$tChapter 7 Proving P ? NP --$tChapter 8 Secrets --$tChapter 9 Quantum --$tChapter 10 The Future --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter Notes and Sources --$tIndex 330 $a"The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and gives examples of the problem from a variety of disciplines, including economics, physics, and biology. He explores problems that capture the full difficulty of the P-NP dilemma, from discovering the shortest route through all the rides at Disney World to finding large groups of friends on Facebook. But difficulty also has its advantages. Hard problems allow us to safely conduct electronic commerce and maintain privacy in our online lives. The Golden Ticket explores what we truly can and cannot achieve computationally, describing the benefits and unexpected challenges of the P-NP problem"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aNP-complete problems 606 $aComputer algorithms 610 $aFacebook. 610 $aFrenemy. 610 $aHamiltonian paths. 610 $aInternet. 610 $aKetan Mulmuley. 610 $aLeonid Levin. 610 $aMartin Hellman. 610 $aNP problem. 610 $aNP problems. 610 $aNP-complete problems. 610 $aNP-complete. 610 $aP versus NP problem. 610 $aP versus NP. 610 $aRichard Feynman. 610 $aSteve Cook. 610 $aTwitter. 610 $aUrbana algorithm. 610 $aWhitfield Diffie. 610 $aacademic work. 610 $aalgebraic geometry. 610 $aalgorithm. 610 $aalgorithms. 610 $aapproximation. 610 $abig data. 610 $acomputational problems. 610 $acomputer science. 610 $acomputers. 610 $acomputing. 610 $acryptography. 610 $acryptosystem. 610 $adatabase. 610 $adecryption. 610 $adigital computers. 610 $aefficient algorithms. 610 $aefficient computation. 610 $aencryption. 610 $afactoring. 610 $afast computers. 610 $agraph isomorphism. 610 $aheuristics. 610 $alinear programming. 610 $amathematics. 610 $amax-cut. 610 $anetwork security. 610 $anetworking. 610 $anew technologies. 610 $aparallel computation. 610 $aperebor. 610 $aprime numbers. 610 $aproblems. 610 $aprogramming. 610 $apublic-key cryptography. 610 $aquantum computers. 610 $aquantum computing. 610 $aquantum cryptography. 610 $aquantum mechanics. 610 $aquantum physical systems. 610 $aresearch community. 610 $asecret messages. 610 $asocial networking data. 610 $asolution. 610 $ateleportation. 615 0$aNP-complete problems. 615 0$aComputer algorithms. 676 $a511.3/52 686 $aCOM051300$aMAT015000$aMAT017000$aMAT034000$2bisacsh 700 $aFortnow$b Lance$f1963-$01648568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818849503321 996 $aThe golden ticket$93996808 997 $aUNINA