Authors’ Note
The separation of computer science from mathematics greatly impoverishes both. The lectures that this book is based on were my attempt to show how these two activities—an ancient one going back to the very beginnings of our civilization and the most modern one—can be brought together.
I was very fortunate that my friend Dan Rose, under whose management our team was applying principles of generic programming to search engine design, agreed to convert my rather meandering lectures into a coherent book. Both of us hope that our readers will enjoy the result of our collaboration.
—A.A.S.
The book you are about to read is based on notes from an “Algorithmic Journeys” course taught by Alex Stepanov at A9.com during 2012. But as Alex and ...
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