EAN: 9780262539029

THE MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE SERIES ALGO...

An accessible introduction to algorithms  explaining not just what they are but how they work 
with examples from a wide range of application areas. Digital technology runs on algorithms 
sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range
from search engines to tournament scheduling  DNA sequencing  and machine learning. Arguing
that every educated person today needs to have some understanding of algorithms and what they
do  in this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series  Panos Louridas offers an
introduction to algorithms that is accessible to the nonspecialist reader. Louridas explains
not just what algorithms are but also how they work  offering a wide range of examples and
keeping mathematics to a minimum. After discussing what an algorithm does and how its
effectiveness can be measured  Louridas covers three of the most fundamental applications
areas: graphs  which describe networks  from eighteenth-century problems to today's social
networks  searching  and how to find the fastest way to search  and sorting  and the importance
of choosing the best algorithm for particular tasks. He then presents larger-scale
applications: PageRank  Google's founding algorithm  and neural networks and deep learning.
Finally  Louridas describes how all algorithms are nothing more than simple moves with pen and
paper  and how from such a humble foundation rise all their spectacular achievements.

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