Book:Donald E. Knuth/The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms/Third Edition

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Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd Edition)

Published $\text {1997}$, Addison-Wesley

ISBN 0-201-89683-4


Subject Matter


Contents

Preface
Preface to the Third Edition (Stanford, California, April 1997)
Procedure for Reading This Set of Books
Notes on the Exercises


Chapter 1 Basic Concepts
1.1. Algorithms
1.2. Mathematical Preliminaries
1.2.1. Mathematical Induction
1.2.2, Numbers, Powers, and Logarithms
1.2.3. Sums and Products
1.2.4. Integer Functions and Elementary Number Theory
1.2.5. Permutations and Factorials
1.2.6. Binomial Coefficients
1.2.7. Harmonic Numbers
1.2.8. Fibonacci Numbers
1.2.9. Generating Functions
1.2.10. Analysis of an Algorithm
*1.2.11. Asymptotic Representations
*1.2.11.1. The $O$-notation
*1.2.11.2. Euler's summation formula
*1.2.11.3. Some asymptotic calculations
1.3. MIX
1.3.1. Description of MIX
1.3.2. The MIX Assembly Language
1.3.3. Applications to Permutations
1.4. Some Fundamental Programming Techniques
1.4.1. Subroutines
1.4.2. Coroutines
1.4.3. Interpretive Routines
1.4.3.1. A MIX simulator
*1.4.3.2. Trace routines
1.4.4. Input and Output
1.4.5. History and Bibliography
Chapter 2 - Information Structures
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Linear Lists
2.2.1. Stacks, Queues and Deques
2.2.2. Sequential Allocation
2.2.3. Linked Allocation
2.2.4. Circular Lists
2.2.5. Doubly Linked Lists
2.2.6. Arrays and Orthogonal Lists
2.3. Trees
2.3.1. Traversing Binary Trees
2.3.2. Binary Tree Representation of Trees
2.3.3. Other Representations of Trees
2.3.4. Basic Mathematical Properties of Trees
2.3.4.1. Free trees
2.3.4.2. Oriented trees
*2.3.4.3. The "infinity lemma"
*2.3.4.4. Enumeration of trees
2.3.4.5. Path length
*2.3.4.6. History and bibliography
2.3.5. Lists and Garbage Collection
2.4 Multilinked Structures
2.5. Dynamic Storage Allocation
2.6. History and Bibliography
Answers to Exercises
Appendix A - Tables of Numerical Quantities
1. Fundamental Constants (decimal)
2. Fundamental Constants (octal)
3. Harmonic Numbers, Bernoulli Numbers, Fibonacci Numbers
Appendix B - Index to Notations
Index and Glossary



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