Limits of Computation: An Introduction to the Undecidable and the Intractable offers a gentle introduction to the theory of computational complexity. It explains the difficulties of computation, addressing problems that have no algorithm at all and problems that cannot be solved efficiently.

The book enables readers to understand:

• What does it mean for a problem to be unsolvable or to be NP-complete?
• What is meant by a computation and what is a general model of a computer?
• What does it mean for an algorithm to exist and what kinds of...