--- product_id: 334394875 title: "The Algorithm Design Manual" price: "£9.88" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/334394875-the-algorithm-design-manual store_origin: GB region: Great Britain --- # The Algorithm Design Manual **Price:** £9.88 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Algorithm Design Manual - **How much does it cost?** £9.88 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/334394875-the-algorithm-design-manual) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![The Algorithm Design Manual - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51G4PPb-MML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ a book for geniuses *by F***E on Reviewed in India on 24 September 2018* This book contains a large number of problems that is the only redeeming quality with this book. And also the algorist site has solutions to many problems which helps a lot. Now that i have listed out the good points let us start with the negatives. If you are looking to understand why something is something this is definitely not the book to use. Let me illustrate with an example paragraph from the book :"How much time does this algorithm" ( calculation of fibonacci series ) "take to compute F(n)? Since Fn+1/Fn =phi= (1+ sqrt(5))/2 =1.61803, this means that Fn > 1.6n. Since our recursion tree has only 0 and 1 as leaves, summing up to such a large number means we must have at least 1.6n leaves or procedure calls! This humble little program takes exponential time to run. "This is an actual text from the book trying to explain the complexity of calculating fibonacci series numbers, also an example of how not to write a paragraph to explain something. How did the sqrt of 5 come about what is with Fn+1/Fn and what is this greek symbol phi. Maybe i am not as smart enough to read this and make sense out of, but then again this is a personal opinion.Another passage for heapsort :"Power in any hierarchically-structured organization is reflected by a tree, where each node in the tree represents a person, and edge (x,y) implies that x directly supervises (or dominates) y. The fellow at the root sits at the “top of the heap."I struggled to figure out how a heap is different from a tree, why cant the same be stated simply and then allow for more analysis of how things work out, this is again a personal opinion and maybe smarter people can understand and use the same.All i am saying is data structures and algorithms is a reasonably difficult subject in its own, without the additional complexity introduced in this book. My free advice to the author would be to explain what exists or what can be a trivial or brute force solution to a problem, differentiate clearly how the new approach is different and try to integrate the same into the trivial solutions correctness. Please do not make me jump to another section of the book for more explanation when the said section has more concepts which have not been introduced until now, if i knew all the terms used in the later section why would i be reading this book ? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Simple Book *by N***T on Reviewed in India on 23 June 2019* Some books (like IL Finar for Organic Chemistry, and Cormen for Algorithms) are the quarries of knowledge. You mine and find more and more knowledge. Read these books only if you have enough understanding of what it takes to write an algorithm (or mechanism).Another category of books give you a basic understanding of subject. This book is that kind. It helps you understand why algorithms work the way they do. One thing, which I like in the book is, the book describes the way the author sees the world, and author never shies from telling how he was wrong at a point, and how quickly he mended his ways.Algorithms are like mathematics. It does not matter how many questions you solve, you can still go wrong at places. You still have things to learn. Algorithms are no different. It is ok to write wrong or sub-optimal algorithms. It is ok to do mistakes. It is always laudable to correct your course and understand why two seemingly similar things are inherently different. This usually adds to the insight about life. This adds depth instead of horizon, the latter can be added later. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful addition to Algorithm enthusiasts' bookshelf *by A***R on Reviewed in India on 13 April 2015* Skiena is absolute ace. Explanations are accurate and to-the-point, coverage of topics is amazingly broad without being overwhelming, there are plenty of solved examples, and the exercises are very good. The book may not be for the beginners though, but would be an excellent second book. The best part is that the second half of the book is devoted entirely to a catalog of problems one is likely to encounter in practice - and very detailed discussions of approaches to solve them. This alone makes this book immensely valuable (besides making it much more practical and applied than any other algorithms book on the market).Be sure however to implement the algorithms though, otherwise you will not see your skills improve. Especially use it in conjunction with TopCoder, CodeChef etc. and see your skills skyrocket.I know for a fact that this book is rated very highly at places like Google, so if you can work through this book well, you might very well be on your way to such places. 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