ALGORITHMS
INTRODUCTION TO
THIRD EDITION
THOMAS H.
CHARLES E.
RONALD L.
CLIFFORD STEIN
RIVEST
LEISERSON
CORMEN
Introduction to Algorithms
Third Edition
Thomas H. Cormen
Charles E. Leiserson
Ronald L. Rivest
Clifford Stein
Introduction to Algorithms
Third Edition
The MIT Press
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2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Introduction to algorithms / Thomas H. Cormen ...[etal.].—3rded.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-03384-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-262-53305-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Computer programming. 2. Computer algorithms. I. Cormen, Thomas H.
QA76.6.I5858 2009
005.1—dc22
2009008593
1098765432
