Introduction to Algorithms is a book by Thomas H. Cormen

Thomas H. Cormen

Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, along with Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest, and Cliff Stein. He is a Full Professor of computer science at Dartmouth College and currently Chair of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science. Between 2004 and 2008 he directed...

, Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Charles Eric Leiserson is a computer scientist, specializing in the theory of parallel computing and distributed computing, and particularly practical applications thereof; as part of this effort, he developed the Cilk multithreaded language...

, Ronald L. Rivest

Ron Rivest

Ronald Linn Rivest is a cryptographer. He is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...

, and Clifford Stein

Clifford Stein

Clifford Stein, a computer scientist, is currently a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University in New York, NY, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Stein is chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research...

. It is used as the textbook for algorithms courses at many universities. It is also one of the most commonly cited references for algorithms in published papers, with over 4600 citations documented on CiteSeerX

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. The book sold half a million copies during its first 20 years.

Editions

The first edition of the textbook did not include Stein as an author, and thus the book became known by the initialism CLR. After the addition of the fourth author in the second edition, many began to refer to the book as "CLRS". This first edition of the book was also known as "The Big White Book (of Algorithms)." With the second edition, the predominant color of the cover changed to green, causing the nickname to be shortened to just "The Big Book (of Algorithms)." A third edition was published in August 2009.

CD-ROM

The second edition of the book published by McGraw-Hill is available with a companion CD-ROM including examples in Java.

Cover design

The mobile

Mobile (sculpture)

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 depicted on the cover, Big Red by Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

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, can be found at the Whitney Museum of American Art

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 in New York City

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External links

• Official websites
  • by MIT Press

• MIT lecture "MIT 6.046J / 18.410J Introduction to Algorithms - Fall 2005". Held in part by coauthor Charles Leiserson. Released as part of MIT OpenCourseWare
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  • At OCW.MIT.Edu. Video recordings and transcripts of the lectures.
  • At VideoLectures.Net. Video recordings of the lectures. Includes slides automatically synchronized to video content.