The Emperor's New Recursiveness: The Epigraph of the Exponential Function in Two Models of Computability

Vasco Brattka, in: ICWLC 2000: Words, Languages and Combinatorics, World Scientific Publishing, River Edge (to appear)


Abstract

In his book ``The Emperor's New Mind'' Roger Penrose implicitly defines some criteria which should be met by a reasonable notion of recursiveness for subsets of Euclidean space. We discuss two such notions with regard to Penrose's criteria: one originated from computable analysis, and the one introduced by Blum, Shub and Smale.

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© 2001 Vasco Brattka, FernUniversität Hagen