Recommended Reading for Math 302 Computability Theory


Kleene, {\em Introduction to Metamathematics}, Van Nostrand, 1952, on reserve at the library. Kleene has a more detailed treatment of the primitive recursive functions on pp. 217--233.


Rogers [1967], {\em Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability}, McGraw-Hill, 1967. Read Chapter~1 for this week.


Piergiorgio Odifreddi, [1989], Classical Recursion Theory, North Holland, 1989. See: pp. 76--86, Lambda calculus and Lambda definability.


Downey Hirschfeldt book, "Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity," to appear.
R. Soare, Computability and Recursion, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, vol. 2 (1996), 284--321. Sept. 1996. On line in Computability and Recursion .pdf .