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An accessible introduction to algorithms, explaining not just what
they are but how they work, with examples from a wide range of
application areas.Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of
instructions that describe how to do something efficiently.
Application areas range from search engines to tournament
scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that
every educated person today needs to have some understanding of
algorithms and what they do, in this volume in the MIT Press
Essential Knowledge series, Panos Louridas offers an introduction
to algorithms that is accessible to the nonspecialist reader.
Louridas explains not just what algorithms are but also how they
work, offering a wide range of examples and keeping mathematics to
a minimum. After discussing what an algorithm does and how its
effectiveness can be measured, Louridas covers three of the most
fundamental applications areas: graphs, which describe networks,
from eighteenth-century problems to today's social networks;
searching, and how to find the fastest way to search; and sorting,
and the importance of choosing the best algorithm for particular
tasks. He then presents larger-scale applications: PageRank,
Google's founding algorithm; and neural networks and deep learning.
Finally, Louridas describes how all algorithms are nothing more
than simple moves with pen and paper, and how from such a humble
foundation rise all their spectacular achievements.
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