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Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach
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Author: Udi Manber
List Price: $73.00
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ISBN: 0201120372
Publisher: Pearson Education POD (March, 1989)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 188,897
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
fantastic
It's a very perfect book to become familiar with main
methods of producing effective algorithms.
Rating: 4 out of 5
a good book
Most books I have read on the subject seem to be simply a collection of algorithmic tricks and techniques. There's no single universal idea, except for this book by Udi Manber. The cover picture says it all. In my opinion, the most fundamental and universal concept in algorithmic design is the idea of induction, recursion, and building bigger desired solutions from smaller already-constructed ones. The experts establish this as their intuition and perhaps take it for granted. But as a beginning algorist, when you have to ask yourself how do I solve/optimize/approximate this problem, I think you'll find this idea so important. This book attempts to make this concept your algorithmic intuition, and that's I think is a good thing.That said, it should be read along with other books in algorithms design and analysis.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Covers a lot, but bigger aint always better
Although this book covers a large area its coverage is somewhat incomplete. The first thing you notice is the bad formatting of this book making the examples and explanations hard to follow. Mathematical proofs and algorithms are placed, bit by bit, into a paragraph of text i.e. "...When we substitute -x for x in (9.8), we get P(-x)=Pe(x^2)+(-x)Po(x^2). To evaluate (9.7), we need to compute P(x-i) and P(-xi), for 0This combined with the assumption that the reader already understands the subject and the maths behind it makes it an unsuitable introductory text. Its only redeeming feature is its wide range of topics, if this is the only Algorithmics book you are likely to by at this time look elsewhere, if you need a second or third book to clarify some points this may just be the one you are after.
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