TY - BOOK AU - Sanjoy Dasgupta AU - Christos H Papadimitriou; Umesh Virkumar Vazirani TI - Algorithms SN - 9780070636613 U1 - 518.1 DAS-A PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - McGraw-Hill Higher Education KW - Algorithms -- Textbooks. Computer algorithms -- Textbooks. Algorithms N1 - 0 Prologue1 Algorithms with Numbers2 Divide-and-Conquer Algorithms3 Decompositions of Graphs4 Paths in Graphs5 Greedy algorithms6 Dynamic Programming7 Linear Programming and Reductions8 NP-complete Problems9 Coping with NP-completeness10 Quantum Algorithms N2 - Explaining the fundamentals of algorithms, this text emphasizes on understanding the mathematical idea behind each algorithm. It includes features such as: the use of boxes to strengthen the narrative: pieces that give historical context, descriptions of how the algorithms are used in practice, and excursions for the mathematically sophisticated. ER -