These lecture notes were translated from the Finnish lecture notes for the TUT course ‘Matemaattinen kryptologia’. The laborious bulk translation was taken care of by the students Jussi Kangas (visiting from the University of Tampere) and Paul Coughlan (visiting from the University of Dublin, Trinity College).
This book shows how to design approximation algorithms: efficient algorithms that find provably near-optimal solutions. Designed as a textbook for graduate-level algorithms courses, the book will also serve as a reference for researchers who are interested in the heuristic solution of discrete optimization problems.
The main objective of this textbook is to provide a uniform account of both the foundations of logic programming and simple programming techniques in the programming language Prolog. The discussion of the foundations also facilitates a systematic survey of variants of the logic programming scheme, like constraint logic programming, deductive databases or concurrent logic programming.
The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Munich.
The main features of this book is the strong emphasis on algorithms. The book contains more than 700 exercises and a number of applications as well as sections on highly applicable subjects.
Practical Common Lisp serves as a useful introduction to Common Lisp for folks who are curious about Lisp but maybe not yet curious enough to shell out big bucks for a dead-tree book and a good Common Lisp tutorial for folks who want to get down to real coding right away.
Everyone loves being in their comfort zone and just chill away, but apparently experts say that as long as you’re comfortable, that means you’re not pushing yourself. So once you’re done with your current book or any of your reading schedule, go out there and find a new one to read. Change the genre that you’re usually in, move on to new unheard authors and storyline. Make that change and perhaps you’ll find a new fresh start on reading, and end up reading a lot more.