Tim Peters is very good at practical algorithm design. He one of the primary designers of the Python dictionary algorithms. His sort algorithm (timsort) is also

Tim Peters is very good at practical algorithm design. He one of the primary designers of the Python dictionary algorithms. His sort algorithm (timsort) is also pretty cool. Also check out the Knights Tour and N-Queens algorithms in the unit tests: <http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_generators.py?revision=73489&view=markup http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_genera... .