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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-9485(e) ISSN 0273-0979(p)

     

Book Review

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Book Information

Author(s): Michael R. Garey and David S. Johnson
Title: Computers and intractability: A guide to the theory of $NP$-completeness
Additional book information: W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1979, xii + 338 pp., $10.00 (paper)


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J. Edmunds, Paths, trees and flowers, Canad. J. Math. 17 (1965), 449-467. MR 177907
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S. Cook, The complexity of theorem-proving procedures, Proc. 3rd ACM Sympos. on Theory of Computing, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. (1971), 151-158.
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A. Goldberg, On the complexity of the satisfiability problem, Ph.D. dissertation, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 1979.
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R. Karp, Reducibility among combinatorial problems, R. Miller and J. Thatcher (eds.), Complexity of Computer Computations, Plenum Press, New York, 1972, pp. 85-103. MR 378476


Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Ronald V. Book

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 (1980), 898-904.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14848-X
PII: S 0273-0979(1980)14848-X




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