Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2001, held in Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic in August 2001.;The 51 revised full papers presented together with 10 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 118 submissions.;All current aspects of theoretical computer science are addressed ranging from mathematical logic and programming theory to algorithms, discrete mathematics, and complexity theory.;Besides classical issues, modern topics like quantum computing are discussed as well.