I'd also very highly recommend this book, but anyone looking to buy might be interested to know that the 3rd edition comes out this fall (9/30). http://www.ama

I'd also very highly recommend this book, but anyone looking to buy might be interested to know that the 3rd edition comes out this fall (9/30). http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Third-Thomas-Cormen/dp/0262033844 http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Third-Thomas-C... "It includes two completely new chapters, on van Emde Boas trees and multithreaded algorithms, and substantial additions to the chapter on recurrence (now called "Divide-and-Conquer"). It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms and a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks."