Algorithm Design 1st Edition

This review is for the Kindle edition of "Algorithm Design" by Kleinberg and Tardos Algorithm DesignThis book is wonderfully organized. I used it for an Algorithms course and it's just very well laid out, with a nice progression of topics. If you want to gain a good "overall" picture of algorithms, this book is perfect. As with any kind of math, if you want to go much deeper, you'll need specialized textbooks for particular topics, but for a reasonably complete, holistic, one-semester course, you'll love this book. I should also point out that there are several well-crafted exercises in each chapter to cement your understanding and give your grey matter a good workout!IMPORTANT: The Kindle edition of this book is a horribly travesty to the non-digital edition. The typesetting is crude (Amazon, you can do way better!), important figures/diagrams are scaled to tiny sizes, and formulas just plain look incorrect. My best guess is that this was re-typeset by hand, by a non-technical person using MS Word, so they simply messed it up badly. Personally, I am kicking myself for having paid nearly $90 for this, when I could've bought the "real" textbook for $110.I was sorely tempted to give it a one-star review, but the content is top-notch, brilliantly put-together and an asset to any student of Computer Science. To recap: DO NOT BUY THE KINDLE EDITION!If you do buy the Kindle edition after reading this review, you'll only have yourself to blame.

Best undergraduate handbook about algorithms i've seen so far.Examples are much less artificial than in CLRS (Introduction to Algorithms). Most of them are highly practical, e.g. using Kruskal's MST algorithm as a simple clustering device.It's worth mentioning that E.Tardos is a world-class calibre specialist in graph algorithms. When you feel unsatisfied with network flows chapter, you can read her survey of network flows (written with two other graph titans - Goldberg and Tarjan)The division into chapters is good, yet classical. There are also exercises after each chapter, lots of them, good for preparation if you have algorithm-oriented job interview (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc.).What's next? Read Tarjan's evergreen classic - Data Structures and Network Algorithms.

I am going to use it as a reference, amazing content for sure

This book is an excellent resource for a wide range of algorithms. It explains the fundamentals of algorithms and its time complexity in detail. Also, found that the seller is using Indian SubContinent version of the book for US order price. I've receieved the book published by Dorling Kindersley(India) pvt ltd., Noida UP, licensee of Pearson Education in South Asia.

The book is one of the best books you can buy on Algorithms. However I do have a problem with the seller (BestStore4Books). The paper quality of the book I received is horrible. The reason is that the seller is taking Indian prints (which cost few hundred rupees) and he is re-selling in the US market for considerable profit. The problem is that the print quality is totally inferior to the books which are printed in the US. The seller is using this corrupt practice to make money.Indian continent books are not supposed to be sold in US market but this seller (BestStore4Books) is doing it.

This was the required text for my course in algorithm analysis. We covered the first 8 chapters but I was intrigued the whole way through by the way in which the authors present the content. It is easy to digest, therefore quite hard to get lost and there are many interesting ideas in each section. I will probably finish the rest of the text this summer after classes end.

Well, the content of the book is great: I will give 4 stars to it. But the kindle edition I bought is annoying in that it does not display a lot of symbols correctly. For examle belongs to, subset, superset, omega and a host of others are shown as a question mark. You either have to guess the symbol based on the context or refer to another book to find out what it is. Because of this the usability of the book is so low, I have to give a single star. I wish there was another way to publicize this problem without bringing the book ranking down. This is a major flaw in kindle edition that Amazon has to correct urgently.