Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms, An

bought for a software engineer, thank you

Llegó en tiempo y forma, agradecido estoy.

I am a first year graduate student in mathematics, so keep that in mind if you're trying to generalize my review. I use nearly all the math discussed in the text for analytic number theory (I rarely program), but this book gives an especially nice treatment of the combinatorial mathematics. I really get excited every time I have to open this book. I typically learn best from books, so I have a good sense for what a book should feature for me to learn the material as quickly and effectively as possible. It's really a drag when something as superfluous as style or a purist aesthetic makes reading sluggish or just impossible to learn from. I want a book to have many problems (ranging between medium to very hard/open problems), solutions in the back, examples to make the more difficult concepts clear, both historical and modern motivations for the material, and clean, linear descriptions. This book hits all of these except the "solutions in the back" part. Despite this one "flaw", however, this book has other great features that compensate. For example, the typesetting is fresh and makes the text more engaging. Also, there are very beautiful graphs and great reference tables. It is really a wonderful book -- the authors clearly were purposeful in the design of this text.

If you are someone who want to learn how you can analyze algorithms deeply, you should read this fascinating book.

If you would like to learn the foundation of computer science, this book is for you!

Written in the spirit of Knuth.

Very good and complete for developers and Algorithm learners

The Kindle edition (at least judging by the free sample) has some formatting issues that render it not so usable. Of all things, in monospaced code samples the plus sign and minus signs ("+", "++", "-", "--") are not rendered on Kindle for PC (1.10.6). Other than that, the formatting appears to be better than in many Kindle math/CS textbooks, but mis-rendered code samples make this a non-purchase for me.

First at all, the one star is due to my personal expectations and not for the product in general! This book is basically a pure math book with theorems and profs page after page. I had expected a more practical computer science related approach for the algorithm analysis. Pretty useless for an software engineer IMHO but maybe useful for a hardcore math researcher. I returned the book.

Very Nice Book and seller is also prompt

Esta obra completa el vacío existente entre la enseñanza formal de un lenguaje de programación y el conocimiento de los algoritmos sobre qué se debe programar. Hoy en día cometemos el error docente de enseñar a decir, sin enseñar antes qué decir.

It needs a good background of math. Althought I haven't finished the book yet, but I found it unique in teaching solving recursive numeric functions. I constantly learn something new from it.

Il libro è davvero notevole, completo, formale ed adatto ad un pubblico che mastica abbastanza bene la matematica discreta e le dimostrazioni di teoremi. Ne sconsiglio l'acquisto digitale in quanto la lettura sul mio dispositivo kindle paperwhite non si è rivelata confortevole. Magari i possessori di altri dispositivi dissentono da questa opinione.