The need for a math background is kept to a minimum, and some mathematical concepts are explained in very clear technical terms in the book. I recommend this book to anyone, and perhaps more to people who are not in the computer science/applied mathem...  Read More

Did you know egyptian pharaohs’ reigns follow an erlang distribution? And it also carries another type of interesting analysis based on the described algorithms. I have the kindle version and its layout is pleasant. There are many more gems in this bo...  Read More

The book explains how to cache and organize your closet based on the lru cache. It also explains the importance of sorting and tradeoffs. The book shows how to "prioritize" a task based on its difficulty.

When one thinks of algorithms, it is often in association with computers or machines. This book explores how people use algorithms in their day-to-day to accomplish tasks. It gives a sense of how sampling randomly allows one to tackle problems that co...  Read More

A nice balance between new information and examples ensures that the reader never gets bored. Audio format is excellent and understandable.

This book is written by experts in writing (writers, journalists, or researchers from an irrelevant field) which could be more readable but carries with them large swaths of dubious facts. It exposes the readers to unsound insights, perhaps based on i...  Read More

The book is aimed at the math geek crowd and provides little in terms of “algorithms to live by. Within the “scheduling’ chapter they indicate that “of the 93% of the problems that we do understand… only 9% can be solved efficiently…” this appears to ...  Read More

The book falls far short of actually impacting anything practical in anyone's life. The author sometimes pretends that he's trying to live up to the book's marketed lie. This is the kind of book that gives mathematicians and computer scientists a bad ...  Read More