Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code

Livro digital

Título:
Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code

Autor:
Jörg Arndt

Categoria:
Tecnologia > Geral

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
For readers who want the machinery behind fast, elegant code, this book opens with a TOC that jumps straight into bit wizardry, permutations, and sorting and searching. That sequence signals a practical focus on how computation actually works at the lowest levels, from manipulating individual bits to organizing data and transforming order efficiently. The contents move from low-level word operations to permutations and in-place transformations, then into sorting, binary search, and equivalence-class methods. Along the way, the book also reaches into Gray code, radix variants, matrix transposition, and other specialized techniques that are rarely treated together in one place. The result is a dense, reference-style guide for readers who already think in algorithms and want sharper tools, better mental models, and source-code-ready ideas. Its value lies in breadth and precision: it connects abstract computational ideas with concrete implementation patterns, making it useful both as a handbook and as a source of advanced techniques.