The guide is organized to help you , focus your study sessions , and extend the material with additional resources âall while respecting copyright (no PDF is provided or linked). 1. Quick Book Overview | Item | Details | |------|----------| | Full Title | Theory of Computation | | Author | Vivek Kulkarni | | Publisher / Edition | (Check the most recent edition you have; the guide works for the 2nd ed. and later) | | Typical Page Count | ~ 550 pp | | Target Audience | Upperâlevel undergraduate or firstâyear graduate students in CS, and anyone preparing for competitive exams (GATE, CSIRâNET, etc.) | | Core Topics | Formal languages, automata theory, regular expressions, contextâfree grammars, pushâdown automata, Turing machines, decidability, complexity classes (P, NP, PSPACE, etc.), reductions, NPâcompleteness, approximation, and introductory cryptographic concepts. |