Introduction to Algorithms
Cover of the third edition
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| Author |
Thomas H. Cormen Charles E. Leiserson Ronald L. Rivest Clifford Stein |
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| Country |
 United States
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Computer algorithms |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
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Publication date
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1990 (first edition) |
| Pages | 1292 |
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Introduction to Algorithms is a book by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. It is used as the textbook for algorithms courses at many universities and is commonly cited as a reference for algorithms in published papers, with over 8900 citations documented on CiteSeerX. The book sold half a million copies during its first 20 years. Its fame has led to the common use of the abbreviation "CLRS" (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein), or, in the first edition, "CLR" (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest).
The first edition of the textbook did not include Stein as an author, and thus the book became known by the initialism CLR. It included 2 chapters ("Arithmetic Circuits" & "Algorithms for Parallel Computers") that were dropped in the second edition. 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.
The mobile depicted on the cover, Big Red (1959) by Alexander Calder, can be found at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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