the bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of todays software developers most of what they know about computer programming byte september 1995 i cant begin to tell you how many pleasurable hours of study and recreation they have afforded me i have pored over them in cars restaurants at work at home and even at a little league game when my son wasnt in the lineup charles long if you think youre a really good programmer read knuths art of computer programming you should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing bill gates its always a pleasure when a problem is hard enough that you have to get the knuths off the shelf i find that merely opening one has a very useful terrorizing effect on computers jonathan laventhol this first volume in the series begins with basic programming concepts and techniques then focuses more particularly on information structuresthe representation of information inside a computer the structural relationships between data elements and how to deal with them efficiently elementary applications are given to simulation numerical methods symbolic computing software and system design dozens of simple and important algorithms and techniques have been added to those of the previous edition the section on mathematical preliminaries has been extensively revised to match present trends in research ebook pdf version produced by mathematical sciences publishers msp msporg