Review of Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook edited by Mikhail Atallah Published by CRC press in 1999 Number of pages 12962 Hardcover, $89.00 ISBN number 0-849-32649-4 Review by William Gasarch University of Maryland at College Park gasarch@cs.umd.edu Overview One uses a h a n d b o o k by looking up things that you always wanted to know or that come up. Hence, I decided to review this handbook by asking a r a n d o m collection of theorists (the editors of SIGACT N E W S and theorists in the Maryland-Wash DC area) to email me questions they are either curious about or think ought to be in a handbook. I comment on how well the book does on answering each one, and then summarize how well the book did overall. For each question asked I looked rather carefully in the table of contents and the index; hence, if I say 'the book did not have anything on topic X' and in reality it does, then the books organization is at fault. This book is intended for undergraduates who have had the basic u n d erg rad u ate theory courses, and
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Review of Alogrithms and Theory of Computation Handbook : edited by Mikhail Atallah
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Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 1999
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