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Art of Computer Programming Volume 3: Sorting and Searching View Larger Image | Donald E. Knuth
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The first revision of this third volume is the most comprehensive survey of classical
computer techniques for sorting and searching. It extends the treatment of data
structures in Volume 1 to consider both large and small databases and internal
and external memories. The book contains a selection of carefully checked computer
methods, with a quantitative analysis of their efficiency. Outstanding features
of the second edition include a revised section on optimum sorting and new discussions
of the theory of permutations and of universal hashing.
Table of Contents
5. Sorting.
Combinatorial Properties of Permutations.
Inversions.
Permutations of a Multiset.
Runs.
Tableaux and Involutions.
Internal sorting.
Sorting by Insertion.
Sorting by Exchanging.
Sorting by Selection.
Sorting by Merging.
Sorting by Distribution.
Optimum Sorting.
Minimum-Comparison Sorting.
Minimum-Comparison Merging.
Minimum-Comparison Selection.
Networks for Sorting.
External Sorting.
Multiway Merging and Replacement Selection.
The Polyphase Merge.
The Cascade Merge.
Reading Tape Backwards.
The Oscillating Sort.
Practical Considerations for Tape Merging.
External Radix Sorting.
Two-Tape Sorting.
Disks and Drums.
Summary, History, and Bibliography.
6. Searching.
Sequential Searching.
Searching by Comparison of Keys.
Searching an Ordered Table.
Binary Tree Searching.
Balanced Trees.
Multiway Trees.
Digital Searching.
Hashing.
Retrieval on Secondary Keys.
Answers to Exercises.
Appendix A: Tables of Numerical Quantities.
Fundamental Constants (decimal).
Fundamental Constants (octal).
Harmonic Numbers, Bernoulli Numbers, Fibonacci Numbers.
Appendix B: Index to Notations.
Index and Glossary.
About the Author
Donald E. Knuth was born on January 10, 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Case Institute of Technology,
where he also wrote software at the Computing Center. The Case faculty took
the unprecedented step of awarding him a Master's degree together with the B.S.
he received in 1960. After graduate studies at California Institute of Technology,
he received a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1963 and then remained on the mathematics
faculty. Throughout this period he continued to be involved with software development,
serving as consultant to Burroughs Corporation from 1960-1968 and as editor
of Programming Languages for ACM publications from 1964-1967.
He joined Stanford University as Professor of Computer Science in 1968, and
was appointed to Stanford's first endowed chair in computer science nine years
later. As a university professor he introduced a variety of new courses into
the curriculum, notably Data Structures and Concrete Mathematics. In 1993 he
became Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming. He has supervised
the dissertations of 28 students.
Knuth began in 1962 to prepare textbooks about programming techniques, and
this work evolved into a projected seven-volume series entitled The Art of Computer
Programming. Volumes 1-3 first appeared in 1968, 1969, and 1973. Having revised
these three in 1997, he is now working full time on the remaining volumes. Approximately
one million copies have already been printed, including translations into six
languages. He took ten years off from this project to work on digital typography,
developing the TeX system for document preparation and the METAFONT system for
alphabet design. Noteworthy by-products of those activities were the WEB and
CWEB languages for structured documentation, and the accompanying methodology
of Literate Programming. TeX is now used to produce most of the world's scientific
literature in physics and mathematics.
His research papers have been instrumental in establishing several subareas
of computer science and software engineering: LR(k) parsing; attribute grammars;
the Knuth-Bendix algorithm for axiomatic reasoning; empirical studies of user
programs and profiles; analysis of algorithms. In general, his works have been
directed towards the search for a proper balance between theory and practice.
Professor Knuth received the ACM Turing Award in 1974 and became a Fellow of
the British Computer Society in 1980, an Honorary Member of the IEEE in 1982.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy
of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and a foreign associate of
l'Academie des Sciences (Paris) and Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (Oslo). He
holds five patents and has published approximately 160 papers in addition to
his 19 books. He received the Medal of Science from President Carter in 1979,
the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for expository writing in 1986,
the New York Academy of Sciences Award in 1987, the J.D. Warnier Prize for software
methodology in 1989, the Adelsköld Medal from the Swedish Academy of
Sciences in 1994, the Harvey Prize from the Technion in 1995, and the Kyoto
Prize for advanced technology in 1996. He was a charter recipient of the IEEE
Computer Pioneer Award in 1982, after having received the IEEE Computer Society's
W. Wallace McDowell Award in 1980; he received the IEEE's John von Neumann Medal
in 1995. He holds honorary doctorates from Oxford University, the University
of Paris, St. Petersburg University, and more than a dozen colleges and universities
in America.
Professor Knuth lives on the Stanford campus with his wife, Jill. They have
two children, John and Jennifer. Music is his main avocation.
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