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Algorithms Unlocked

By Cormen, Thomas H.

Algorithms Unlocked Computer Science

Algorithms Unlocked

By Cormen, Thomas H.

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For anyone who has ever wondered how computers solve problems, an engagingly written guide for nonexperts to the basics of computer algorithms. Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination, selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere seconds? How your credit card account number is protected when you make a purchase over the Internet? The answer is algorithms. And how do these mathematical formulations translate themselves into your GPS, your laptop, or your smart phone? This book offers an engagingly written guide to the basics of computer algorithms. In Algorithms Unlocked, Thomas Cormen—coauthor of the leading college textbook on the subject—provides a general explanation, with limited mathematics, of how algorithms enable computers to solve problems. Readers will learn what computer algorithms are, how to describe them, and how to evaluate them. They will discover simple ways to search for information in a computer; methods for rearranging information in a computer into a prescribed order (“sorting”); how to solve basic problems that can be modeled in a computer with a mathematical structure called a “graph” (useful for modeling road networks, dependencies among tasks, and financial relationships); how to solve problems that ask questions about strings of characters such as DNA structures; the basic principles behind cryptography; fundamentals of data compression; and even that there are some problems that no one has figured out how to solve on a computer in a reasonable amount of time.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2013-03-01
Publication Date:
2013-03-01
Publisher:
MIT Press Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0262518805
ISBN13:
9780262518802
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
330 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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