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.

This text explains the fundamentals of algorithms in a story line that makes the material enjoyable and easy to digest. Emphasis is placed on understanding the crisp mathematical idea behind each algorithm, in a manner that is intuitive and rigorous without being unduly formal. The features include: the use of boxes to strengthen the narrative: pieces that provide historical context, descriptions of how the algorithms are used in practice, and excursions for the mathematically sophisticated. It includes carefully chosen advanced topics that can be skipped in a standard one-semester course, but can be covered in an advanced algorithms course or in a more leisurely two-semester sequence. It gives an accessible treatment of linear programming and introduces students to one of the greatest achievements in algorithms. An optional chapter on the quantum algorithm for factoring provides a unique peephole into this exciting topic. "Algorithms" is an outstanding undergraduate text, equally informed by the historical roots and contemporary applications of its subject.

0 Prologue
1 Algorithms with Numbers
2 Divide-and-conquer algorithms
3 Decompositions of graphs
4 Paths in graphs
5 Greedy algorithms
6 Dynamic Programming
7 Linear Programming and Reductions 8 NP-complete Problems
9 Coping with NP-completeness
10 Quantum Algorithms