Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!rawlins@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu From: rawlins@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Gregory J. E. Rawlins) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Don't buy Manber's Message-ID: <1991May3.170740.22652@news.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 3 May 91 22:07:27 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Indiana University Lines: 18 In article hobbit@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (yoav gonen) writes: >If you are thinking on buying the book: "INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS" - >written by UDI MANBER - D o n 't d o i t!!!!!!! >It is the worst book on algorithms I have ever seen - especially because it >isn't including some of the most importent ones. Here are only some examples: Why the hysteria? Looking at the list of point you give leads me to suspect that you don't want a textbook, but a handbook or reference book. If so, you should buy Sedgewick's book, or Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest's book (if you want detailed analysis as well a large number of algorithms). Manber's book is an attempt to teach students to think for themselves. >Infact, I'm sorry to say that there isn't (at least - not in Israel) any >book which really covers the entire algorithms-theory. Try _Introduction to Algorithms_, Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, McGraw-Hill/MIT Press, 1990. gregory.