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8. Undecidability

Donner Professor of Mathematics

1:17:02·2021·undergraduate level

This lecture, part of MIT's advanced course in Theory of Computation, rigorously demonstrates the undecidability of the Acceptance Problem and the Halting Problem for Turing Machines, utilizing both Cantor's diagonalization method and the technique of reducibility.

MIT 18.404J Theory of Computation, Fall 2020

Instructor: Michael Sipser

View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/18-404JF20

YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3wkOt9syvfQWY

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