Another good algorithms text is Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual. It's not as rigorous as CLRS (it doesn't spend as much time on proving correctness mathematica

Another good algorithms text is Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual. It's not as rigorous as CLRS (it doesn't spend as much time on proving correctness mathematically), but as an implementer of algorithms, I find Skiena to be more useful on a day-to-day basis than CLRS. Skiena talks about caveats and pitfalls that come up when attempting to implement the algorithm on real hardware (e.g. cache-locality issues, high constant factors, etc.) that CLRS skims over.