School of Mathematics and Statistics, Key Laboratory of Applied Statistics of MOE, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, Jilin Province, P. R. China ...

This is a book about the "Halting Problem", arguably the most (in)famous computer-related problem: can an algorithm decide in finite time whether an arbitrary computer program eventually stops? This ...

XING Yuqing is Visiting Research Professor of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore and Professor of Economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.