Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms.

Knuth, Donald E.

ISBN 10: 1575862123 / ISBN 13: 9781575862125

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Leland Stanford Junior University., 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms.
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Leland Stanford Junior University.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575862123
• ISBN 13: 9781575862125
• Binding: Soft cover
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Synopsis

Analysis of Algorithms is the fourth in a series of collected works by world-renowned computer scientist Donald Knuth. This volume is devoted to an important subfield of Computer Science that Knuth founded in the 1960s and still considers his main life's work. This field, to which he gave the name Analysis of Algorithms, deals with quantitative studies of computer techniques, leading to methods for understanding and predicting the efficiency of computer programs. Analysis of Algorithms, which has grown to be a thriving international discipline, is the unifying theme underlying Knuth's well known book The Art of Computer Programming. More than 30 of the fundamental papers that helped to shape this field are reprinted and updated in the present collection, together with historical material that has not previously been published. Although many ideas come and go in the rapidly changing world of computer science, the basic concepts and techniques of algorithmic analysis will remain important as long as computers are used.

About the Author

Donald E. Knuth is one of the world's pre-eminent computer scientists, whose works have had a profound influence on the subject since the publication in 1968 of the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth created TeX, a language for typesetting mathematical and scientific texts, and METAFONT, a computer software system for alphabet design. He is professor emeritus at Stanford University.