Algorithm Design with Haskell
Algorithm Design with Haskell
£55.00
GBPThis book is devoted to five main principles of algorithm design: divide and conquer, greedy algorithms, thinning, dynamic programming, and exhaustive search. These principles are presented using Haskell, a purely functional language, leading to simpler explanations and shorter programs than would be obtained with imperative languages. Carefully selected examples, both new and standard, reveal the commonalities and highlight the differences between algorithms. The algorithm developments use equational reasoning where applicable, clarifying the applicability conditions and correctness arguments. Every chapter concludes with exercises (nearly 300 in total), each with complete answers, allowing the reader to consolidate their understanding and apply the techniques to a range of problems. The book serves students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), researchers, teachers, and professionals who want to know more about what goes into a good algorithm and how such algorithms can be expressed in purely functional terms.
- Emphasises the deep structure of algorithms, giving both new and standard examples, and illuminates commonalities and differences between apparently unrelated algorithms
- Contains nearly 300 exercises with complete answers, making the book suitable for use in the classroom or for self-study
- All the algorithms are implemented in Haskell, making this an ideal follow-on from Bird's Thinking Functionally with Haskell
Reviews & endorsements
'I strongly suspect that Richard Bird hides a magically productive book writing apparatus in his office. This time around, Bird pulled the machine's levers together with Jeremy Gibbons and out came Algorithm Design with Haskell, a book that is remarkable in many ways … the authors recast a number of classical problems in terms of thinning, including ones like knapsack which otherwise have been tackled via dynamic programming for ages. These fresh – very confidently and competently presented- takes on established material are true highlights of the text.' Torsten Grust, Journal of Functional Programming
Product details
July 2020Hardback
9781108491617
450 pages
252 × 178 × 29 mm
0.93kg
28 b/w illus. 290 exercises
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Basics:
- 1. Functional programming
- 2. Timing
- 3. Useful data structures
- Part II. Divide and conquer:
- 4. Binary search
- 5. Sorting
- 6. Selection
- Part III. Greedy algorithms:
- 7. Greedy algorithms on lists
- 8. Greedy algorithms on trees
- 9. Greedy algorithms on graphs
- Part IV. Thinning algorithms:
- 10. Introduction to thinning
- 11. Segments and subsequences
- 12. Partitions
- Part V. Dynamic programming:
- 13. Efficient recursions
- 14. Optimum bracketing
- Part VI. Exhaustive search:
- 15. Ways of searching
- 16. Heuristic search
- Index.
