Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (The MIT Press) 3rd Edition

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The latest edition of the essential text and professional reference, with substantial new material on such topics as vEB trees, multithreaded algorithms, dynamic programming, and edge-based flow.

Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. The book covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study. The algorithms are described in English and in a pseudocode designed to be readable by anyone who has done a little programming. The explanations have been kept elementary without sacrificing depth of coverage or mathematical rigor.

The first edition became a widely used text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals. The second edition featured new chapters on the role of algorithms, probabilistic analysis and randomized algorithms, and linear programming. The third edition has been revised and updated throughout. It includes two completely new chapters, on van Emde Boas trees and multithreaded algorithms, substantial additions to the chapter on recurrence (now called “Divide-and-Conquer”), and an appendix on matrices. It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms and a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks. Many exercises and problems have been added for this edition. The international paperback edition is no longer available; the hardcover is available worldwide.

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"In light of the explosive growth in the amount of data and the diversity of computing applications, efficient algorithms are needed now more than ever. This beautifully written, thoughtfully organized book is the definitive introductory book on the design and analysis of algorithms. The first half offers an effective method to teach and study algorithms; the second half then engages more advanced readers and curious students with compelling material on both the possibilities and the challenges in this fascinating field."--Shang-Hua Teng, University of Southern California

""Introduction to Algorithms, " the 'bible' of the field, is a comprehensive textbook covering the full spectrum of modern algorithms: from the fastest algorithms and data structures to polynomial-time algorithms for seemingly intractable problems, from classical algorithms in graph theory to special algorithms for string matching, computational geometry, and number theory. The revised third edition notably adds a chapter on van Emde Boas trees, one of the most useful data structures, and on multithreaded algorithms, a topic of increasing importance."--Daniel Spielman, Department of Computer Science, Yale University

"As an educator and researcher in the field of algorithms for over two decades, I can unequivocally say that the Cormen book is the best textbook that I have ever seen on this subject. It offers an incisive, encyclopedic, and modern treatment of algorithms, and our department will continue to use it for teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as a reliable research reference."--Gabriel Robins, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

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Introduction to Algorithms, the 'bible' of the field, is a comprehensive textbook covering the full spectrum of modern algorithms: from the fastest algorithms and data structures to polynomial-time algorithms for seemingly intractable problems, from classical algorithms in graph theory to special algorithms for string matching, computational geometry, and number theory. The revised third edition notably adds a chapter on van Emde Boas trees, one of the most useful data structures, and on multithreaded algorithms, a topic of increasing importance.

―Daniel Spielman, Department of Computer Science, Yale University

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0262033844
Publisher ‏ : ‎ MIT Press; 3rd edition (September 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1292 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780262033848
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262033848
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.08 x 8.18 x 2.06 inches

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Thomas H. Cormen is Professor and former Chair of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science and former director of the Dartmouth College Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. He received the B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1978 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1986 and 1993, respectively. He is coauthor of the leading textbook on computer algorithms, Introduction to Algorithms, which he wrote with Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. The book, now in its third edition, has been translated into several languages. He is also the author of Algorithms Unlocked, a gentle introduction to understanding computer algorithms and how they relate to real-world problems.

Outside computer science, Cormen likes skating (inline and nordic), paddling, and cooking and eating barbecue.

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thomas scanlan

Helpful text, but not sufficient as sole resource

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2019

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My process for studying this text is to read a section at a time and walk through the examples illustrated. I often struggle with the math that is being demonstrated as a proof for the algorithm. I then research an actual example of the topic discussed and watch a youtube video that demonstrates it in application.

I then re-read the section and take notes. I find that I feel somewhat lost at first when the book introduces a topic that I am unfamiliar with, but after reviewing it from a high level (youtube video) it helps me understand the algorithm on a surface level. Once I understand it in its simplest terms, the proofs become much simpler and they make a lot of sense.

I think to get everything out of this text you should be comfortable with data-structures, linear algebra and discrete mathematics. I found discrete math and linear algebra to be difficult courses, but this text is increasing my confidence in how much I had learned in those courses.

Great text but at times I feel lost. I wish the examples were more comprehensive at times.

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Matthew

Good, But Still Very Complex!

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2016

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For background, I am a not-so-sharp CS undergrad that used this book for an intro. to algorithms class. I've done linear algebra, struggled my way through a "calculus" probability course, and enjoyed implementing many typical data structures. My learning style relies on simple examples (especially visual) accompanied by a concise explanation. Here are my thoughts:

This book is impressive! It covers a lot of subject matter and is clearly worded. However, you're going to get lost because this often reads more like a reference manual than a conversation that appeals to intuition. You'll be pushed into analyzing algorithms for theoretical data structures that you fuzzily remember (if at all). But, nonetheless, throw enough man hours into this book and you will learn concrete approaches to determining just how hard you're making the computer work.

My biggest criticism is that, as an *introduction*, this book doesn't do the best job at warming up readers to new tools and methodologies. This is an 'eh, just push them into the deep end' kind of approach to learning.

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CyrixLord

very mathy

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2018

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yes, yes, it's an algorithm book but it looks like they expect you to be fluent in math so don't expect a primer here. great at making me looks smart to people who look at my bookshelf. I found 'easier' descriptions of common algorithms online but If you already know math like a boss, this would be pretty helpful. Better bring some water because its also pretty dry reading.

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Ben Bitdiddle

Text is pretty good but has pedagogical weaknesses

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2016

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I think this is a pretty good book that is easy to read if you have a strong background in proof-based math.

Highlights:
- The introduction (Chapters 1-4) is really good and does a good job setting up all the fundamental concepts of algorithms. I think a lot of people tend to skip over introductions because they think they know all of it already, but this is an introduction that I recommend reading the whole way through.
- The book is a pretty light read (none of the math is too difficult) and each chapter is a good length.
- I think the material on dynamic programming and greedy algorithms was particularly enlightening, and if you read it the whole way through you actually learn how to prove that greedy algorithms work, instead of just being like "let's use a greedy algorithm because it seems right"
- I was able to copy a lot of CLRS code almost verbatim in my programming interviews and pass them.
- The figures are really well done and informative.

Drawbacks:
- The pseudocode has a lot of one-letter variable names, and while this follows the tradition of pure math, it also makes understanding the algorithms more difficult than it should be.
- Sometimes the pseudocode is not the "easiest" possible pseudocode (for example, merge sort), and I think it would be better if the authors presented a simpler version of the pseudocode first and then extended it to the optimal version. But then I guess CLRS would be even longer than it already is.
- The arrays are 1-indexed, which makes it trickier to convert to code. Also there are some sections of the textbook (the counting sort section) where some of the arrays are 0-indexed and other arrays are 1-indexed, which is just weird.
- I think the material on graphs, particularly the derivations, could be done in a more engaging and intuitive way. The derivations in Chapters 22-24 were a long series of small uninteresting lemmas, instead of a small number of harder, more insightful theorems. I found derivations elsewhere on the internet that were a lot more interesting and built more intuition about why the procedures worked. I feel like the rest of the book is pretty good though, so maybe all the graph stuff was written by a separate person who is not very good at explaining things.

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Beware of counterfeits; do not buy from Amazon!

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2021

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I, like many others, was sold a counterfeit version of this book (confirmed by the publisher) where the pages were of poor quality and fell out very easily. Even so, despite the seller not responding to multiple messages, Amazon REFUSED to follow through on their A to Z guarentee. I recommend NOT buying (anything) from Amazon for this reason. I ended up purchasing a new copy from a legitimate seller (Barnes and Noble) as shown in the photo at the top, and you can really tell the difference! Lessons learned; will NEVER buy from Amazon again.

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Yashas

Received A Xerox Copy

Reviewed in India on January 7, 2020

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Firstly, this is not the international edition. It's the Eastern economy edition. And the book I received, sold by "law book world", seems like a xerox copy. Doesn't seem legit. Disappointed about that.

But I got it for a price of 900 Rs. Still, it's not correct for the seller to ship a Xerox copy. And the quality of the xerox is not good as well because in many pages, the ink is too light and almost not readable.

Coming to the book itself, it's a great book and no doubt it. Recommend this book to anyone who wants to study algorithms.

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DanF

Book is missing of pages

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2019

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I have bought this book years ago but only now I have realised that over 100 pages are missing (I usually use an electronic version of it). You clearly can see from the images that it is not possible seeing the missing pages from the side of the tome that means the book is was originally faulty. Over £32! That is what you call a proper SCAM!

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Steven Warriner

Tends to student textbook rather than cookbook of algorithms

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2018

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Comprehensive and large selection of algorithms with emphasis on analysis of the runtime of the algorithms. Written as student textbook so some of elaboration and analysis is presented as exercises to be completed. The algorithms themselves are clearly described and given in pseudo-code, but there is no difficulty transcribing them into an actual language.

On balance given 5* for comprehensive coverage of algorithms and clear descriptions - but don't expect a pure cookbook of algorithms that can be typed in or downloaded.

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Vikas Yadav

Seems like Copy of book instead of original book.

Reviewed in India on November 8, 2020

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It seems like amazon provided copy version of book. Even the figures are not clear.

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Sam

This is THE textbook on algorithms

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2018

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This is the definitive textbook on algorithms, and something no Computer Science student or researcher should ever be without.

That said, the approach, whilst detailed, is at times quite dry and heavy going, and could perhaps be broken up a little more to keep the reader refreshed and focused.

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