Knuth's books, i.e., TACP, are plenty easy to read: Mostly just skip the details of the math. Why skip? Because working through the details can take a lot of

Knuth's books, i.e., TACP, are plenty easy to read: Mostly just skip the details of the math. Why skip? Because working through the details can take a lot of time, and for just using the algorithms the details usually amount to little down to nothing. The details of the math might be quite good as examples of math techniques for evaluating the execution time ('computational time complexity') of some algorithm not covered in Knuth.