The previous lecture in this series is here. The next lecture in this series is here.

Quickly reviewed last lecture. Introduced exponential complexity classes and demonstrated a “natural” provably intractable problem. Introduced oracles and relativized computation to suggest that pure diagonalization-based methods cannot separate P and NP.

These videos are of a lecture course by Michael Sipser at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2020, and made available as part of its OpenCourseWare initiative.