为了让你感受更浓厚的博尔赫斯式氛围：我一直对《Automata Theory》的作者马修·西蒙感到百思不得其解，除了这本书和另一本同样古怪的《Emergent Computation》之外，他在 Google 上几乎没有留下任何痕迹。（现在随手翻翻，我就看到一段关于教皇克莱蒙和自笞的诡异引文，然后话题又立刻切回了自动机理论）。难道他是用了……笔名？
To make it more Borgesian for you, I have been baffled by the fact that the author of Automata Theory, Matthew Simon, has left almost no traces on Google besides this book and one other book called Emergent Computation, which is similarly eccentric. (Browsing it now, I came across a weird quote about Pope Clement and self-flagellation, then it's right back to automata theory again). Could it be that he wrote under…
我的计算理论知识还不足以评价这本书。至于他为什么用那些奇怪的引文，鬼知道呢。不过他还写过别的书。比如这本：https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Computation-Emphasizing-Bioi... 你可以在 Google Books 上预览一点点：https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=d2i8q2PayrQC&pg=PR7&lpg... 不得不说，内容在我看来相当有意思。我其实正在考虑……
My knowledge of computation theory is not good enough to judge the book. Why he used the strange quotes. Who knows. But he wrote more books. Like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Computation-Emphasizing-Bioi... You can browse a little bin on google books: https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=d2i8q2PayrQC&pg=PR7&lpg... Must say, the content looks rather interesting to me. I am actually consider…
为了让你感受更浓厚的博尔赫斯式氛围：我一直对《Automata Theory》的作者马修·西蒙感到百思不得其解，除了这本书和另一本同样古怪的《Emergent Computation》之外，他在 Google 上几乎没有留下任何痕迹。（现在随手翻翻，我就看到一段关于教皇克莱蒙和自笞的诡异引文，然后话题又立刻切回了自动机理论）。难道他是用了……笔名？
To make it more Borgesian for you, I have been baffled by the fact that the author of Automata Theory, Matthew Simon, has left almost no traces on Google besides this book and one other book called Emergent Computation, which is similarly eccentric. (Browsing it now, I came across a weird quote about Pope Clement and self-flagellation, then it's right back to automata theory again). Could it be that he wrote under…
我的计算理论知识还不足以评价这本书。至于他为什么用那些奇怪的引文，鬼知道呢。不过他还写过别的书。比如这本：https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Computation-Emphasizing-Bioi... 你可以在 Google Books 上预览一点点：https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=d2i8q2PayrQC&pg=PR7&lpg... 不得不说，内容在我看来相当有意思。我其实正在考虑……
My knowledge of computation theory is not good enough to judge the book. Why he used the strange quotes. Who knows. But he wrote more books. Like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Computation-Emphasizing-Bioi... You can browse a little bin on google books: https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=d2i8q2PayrQC&pg=PR7&lpg... Must say, the content looks rather interesting to me. I am actually consider…