About the book

This internationally acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of computer algorithms. It 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 presents an algorithm, a design technique, an application area, or a related topic. The algorithms are described and designed in a manner 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 third edition has been revised and updated throughout. It includes two completely new chapters, on van Emde Boas trees and multithreaded algorithms, and substantial additions to the chapter on recurrences (now called Divide-and-Conquer). 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 new exercises and problems have been added in this edition. The text is intended primarily for students studying algorithms or data structures. As it discusses engineering issues in algorithm design, as well as mathematical aspects, it is equally well suited for self-study by technical professionals.

Contents

1. Foundations

1. The Role of Algorithms in Computing
2. Getting Started
3. Growth of Functions
4. Divide-and-Conquer
5. Probabilistic Analysis and Randomized Algorithms

2. Sorting and Order Statistics

6. Heapsort
7. Quicksort
8. Sorting in Linear Time
9. Medians and Order Statistics

3. Data Structures

10. Elementary Data Structures
11. Hash Tables
12. Binary Search Trees
13. Red-Black Trees
14. Augmenting Data Structures

4. Advanced Design and Analysis Techniques

15. Dynamic Programming
16. Greedy Algorithms
17. Amortized Analysis

5. Advanced Data Structures

18. B-Trees
19. Fibonacci Heaps
20. Van Emde Boas Trees
21. Data Structures for Disjoint Sets

6. Graph Algorithms

22. Elementary Graph Algorithms
23. Minimum Spanning Tress
24. Single-Source Shortest Paths
25. All-Pairs Shortest Paths
26. Maximum Flow

7. Selected Topics

27. Multithreaded Algorithms
28. Matrix Operations
29. Linear Programming
30. Polynomials and the FFT
31. Number-Theoretic Algorithms
32. String Matching
33. Computational Geometry
34. NP-Completeness
35. Approximation Algorithms

8. Appendix: Mathematical Background

        Bibliography

        Index