The Book Review Column s by William Gasarch and Samir Khulle r Department of Computer Scienc e University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD, 2074 2 email: gasarch@cs .umd .edu Welcome to the Book Reviews Column . We hope to bring you at least two reviews of books ever y month . In this column three books are reviewed . This particular column has a guest co-edito r Samir Khuller because one of the books reviewed is by the usual editor William Gasarch . Sami r Khuller handled that review (e .g., decided if it was in scope, found a reviewer, and proofread th e final review). William Gasarch will not see the review until he reads it in SIGACT NEWS . 1. Computational geometry in C (Second Edition) , by Joseph O'Rourke . Reviewe d by : Michael Dekhtyar . This book is an introductory text in Computational Geometry . Th e algorithms are explained on a variety of levels including actual code . 2. Bounded Queries in Recursion Theory by William Gasarch and Georgia Martin . Re viewed by Lance Fortnow . This book looks at the complexity of a function in terms of ho w many queries to some oracle are needed to compute it . The context is recursion-theoretic . 3. Logic For Applications (Second Edition) , By Anil Nerode and Richard A . Shore . Reviewed by Alexander Dekhtyar . This book contains both logic and logic programming , and the connections between the two . Review oft Computational geometry in C Second Edition, 199 8 Author : Joseph O'Rourk e Softcover $29 .95, ISBN 052164976 5 Hardcover $69 .95, ISBN 052164010 5 Publisher : Cambridge University Pres s 424 Page s Reviewer : Michael Dekhtyar Department of Computer Scienc e Tver State University Tver, 170000, Russi a Michael .Dekhtyar@tversu .ru 1 Overview The book under review is the second edition of an introductory textbook in computational geometry . This area has seen intense development during the last two decades . Machine graphics, patter n recognition, robot motion are the main sources of the problems in this area . For many of thes e problems "simple" solutions can be found by brute force algorithms . But their efficient, practicall y implementable solutions need the deep insight into geometrical structures as well as the delicat e 1 © William Gasarch and Samir Khuller 1999 . 2 © Michael Dekhytar, 1999 8
/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/book-review-computational-geometry-in-c-second-edition-by-joseph-o-okrdZD6XJY
Welcome to DeepDyve! Rent Premier Research Articles and Save Up to 90%
Free Article
Book review: Computational geometry in C Second Edition by Joseph O'Rourke (Cambridge University Press 1988)
Reviewer-Dekhtyar, Michael
Follow ACM SIGACT News
, Volume 30 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1999
More Info
More Like This Article
View All dataSource[]=actageo&dataSource[]=aspet&dataSource[]=aaos&dataSource[]=aacc&dataSource[]=aacr&dataSource[]=aea&dataSource[]=aip&dataSource[]=ajnr&dataSource[]=ams&dataSource[]=aps_physical&dataSource[]=appi_book&dataSource[]=appi_journal&dataSource[]=apha&dataSource[]=asip&dataSource[]=asm&dataSource[]=asn&dataSource[]=aspb&dataSource[]=avs&dataSource[]=annual_reviews&dataSource[]=arxiv&dataSource[]=acm&dataSource[]=berghahn&dataSource[]=cabi&dataSource[]=clinical_trials&dataSource[]=dailymed&dataSource[]=degruyter&dataSource[]=du_press&dataSource[]=esa&dataSource[]=eu_press&dataSource[]=elsevier&dataSource[]=emerald&dataSource[]=ejtr&dataSource[]=emea&dataSource[]=epo&dataSource[]=faseb&dataSource[]=gsa&dataSource[]=health_affairs&dataSource[]=hindawi&dataSource[]=imanager&dataSource[]=imedpub&dataSource[]=informa_healthcare&dataSource[]=informs&dataSource[]=iop&dataSource[]=iucr&dataSource[]=iospress&dataSource[]=jbjs&dataSource[]=leftcoast&dataSource[]=lu_press&dataSource[]=mesharpe&dataSource[]=mary_ann_liebert&dataSource[]=medline&dataSource[]=mit_press&dataSource[]=nature&dataSource[]=oxford&dataSource[]=pier_professional&dataSource[]=pnas&dataSource[]=portlandpress&dataSource[]=psyc_articles&dataSource[]=psyc_books&dataSource[]=psyc_critiques&dataSource[]=plos_journal&dataSource[]=pubmed_central&dataSource[]=rsna&dataSource[]=rockefeller&dataSource[]=rcn&dataSource[]=ria&dataSource[]=rsc&dataSource[]=sage&dataSource[]=spie&dataSource[]=springer_journal&dataSource[]=springer&dataSource[]=taylor_francis&dataSource[]=aps&dataSource[]=the_scientist&dataSource[]=uc_press&dataSource[]=uspto_abstract&dataSource[]=wiley&dataSource[]=pct
© 2012 DeepDyve, Inc. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
