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Advanced Complexity Theory

A nested Venn diagram.

Two levels of the complexity hierarchy. (Image by Prof. Daniel Spielman.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

18.405J / 6.841J

As Taught In

Fall 2001

Level

Graduate

Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

The topics for this course cover various aspects of complexity theory, such as  the basic time and space classes, the polynomial-time hierarchy and the randomized classes . This is a pure theory class, so no applications were involved.

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Daniel Spielman. 18.405J Advanced Complexity Theory. Fall 2001. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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