ISBN0321295358

best undergraduate handbook about algorithms i've seen so far.
examples are much less artificial than in cormen (introduction to algorithms)

I think the book Algorithms (Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos H. Papadimitriou, and Umesh Vazirani), is better written and more succint but nonetheless Algorithm Design is an excellent book. Its problems sets are very interesting (often posed from real world perspectives) and towards the end the depth of the material exceeds the much shorter Algorhithms book. You should probably get both.

I purchased it new directly from Amazon but there's no shrink wrap film on the book and both the front cover and the back cover have some scratches by certain shart utils and also kind of stained. And the mail arrived in a large bubble envelope... I remember every time I purchased a new book from Amazon before, it always arrived with a paper box with air cushion. And the supposed new condition is why I'd pay some extra tens of dollars instead of buying a used book. I even suspected for a while that I ordered a "used, but acceptable" one. I thought of mail it back, but the course has begun, and I cannot go along without a textbook...

This textbook is details and runs through topics with very strong and interesting examples. The problems make you think, yet are in line with what the book is teaching you.

Unfortunately, some of the descriptions are overly wordy and confusing. Too many variables are introduced in some of the proofs and algorithm designs, making it difficult to keep track of what is what. More diagrams (perhaps step-by-step) would be very useful.

One of the better algorithm books I have studied. The content is succinctly presented. It does a good job at handling some complex topics. I like the way the book focuses on techniques for designing algorithms. Manages to bring forth important concepts in algorithm design while keeping the book to a manageable size.