Advanced Complexity Theory

A nested Venn diagram.

Two levels of the complexity hierarchy. (Image by Prof. Daniel Spielman.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

18.405J / 6.841J

As Taught In

Fall 2001

Level

Graduate

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Course Features

Course Description

The topics for this course cover various aspects of complexity theory, such as  the basic time and space classes, the polynomial-time hierarchy and the randomized classes . This is a pure theory class, so no applications were involved.