Formal Languages and Automata Theory

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1. dmr_92Jun 2022
   Bit of a brain dump here. Serre's Trees was pretty relevant to my studies, though left quite a few gaps for the reader to fill in.

   Meier's Groups, Graphs and Trees is much more accessible and visual. Strongly recommended!

   Knuth's notes on how to write mathematics well [1] were very influential.

   Munkres' Topology is a classic, but I think I leaned more on Hatcher's Algebraic Topology towards the end.

   Drobot's Formal Languages and Automata Theory was a lot of fun to self-study.

   The Graduate Texts in Mathematics series was always reliable in my experience.

   [1]: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/klr.html

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2. mr_puzzledJun 2019
   As strange as it may sound, I graduated with a CS degree and didn't put in much effort during my time in college so I'd like to go over my undergraduate course material again. I need good resources to learn the following topics at an undergraduate/graduate level :

   - Databases and SQL

   - Compilers, formal languages and automata theory

   - Operating systems

   - Computer networking

   If you have recommendations on books or courses online that could help me go over these topics, that would be very helpful.

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3. erwanOct 2018
   What a coincidence.

   Last week, I had a midterm that covered formal languages and automata theory. I went to the Davis Centre Library at the University of Waterloo looking for books on Automata Theory. I stumbled upon that very book. And though I dismissed it because the formatting was horrible, I did notice its odd epigraphs. I found the cover a bit mysterious and amusingly out of place, and went with something else.

   Now, I read here on Hacker News, a high-profile website, about this most obscure review of this most obscure book written almost ten years ago - what's more? The person who wrote the review is also the one that requested that the library orders the book in the first place. He is one of my professors. Quite frankly the personification of what you would hope a scholar and teacher to be.

   I know I have no reasons to feel agitated but why do I feel like this is the prologue of a thriller?

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