Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1. Fundamental Algorithms and Volume 2. Seminumerical Algorithms
Mark B. Wells · Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society · 1973
Seminumerical Algorithms by Donald E.Knuth.Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1969 (second printing) and 1969.1.These books are the first two of eight volumes on the construction and analysis of computer algorithms.The entire set, consisting of twelve chapters and a compendium volume covering the first ten chapters, will provide comprehensive coverage of "nonnumerical programming", computer programming which relies but very little on classical numerical analysis.This area of computing is surprisingly broad and accommodates not only the fundamentals but also many of the active research problems of modern computing.The first seven volumes have the following outline :Volume 1. Fundamental Algorithms Chapter 1. Basic Concepts Chapter 2.