Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

Richard Bird is Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

• Preface; 1. The smallest free number; 2. A surpassing problem; 3. Improving on saddleback search; 4. A selection problem; 5. Sorting pairwise sums; 6. Making a century; 7. Building a tree with minimum height; 8. Unravelling greedy algorithms; 9. Finding celebrities; 10. Removing duplicates; 11. Not the maximum segment sum; 12. Ranking suffixes; 13. The Burrows–Wheeler transform; 14. The last tail; 15. All the common prefixes; 16. The Boyer–Moore algorithm; 17. The Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm; 18. Planning solves the rush hour problem; 19. A simple Sudoku solver; 20. The countdown problem; 21. Hylomorphisms and nexuses; 22. Three ways of computing determinants; 23. Inside the convex hull; 24. Rational arithmetic coding; 25. Integer arithmetic coding; 26. The Schorr–Waite algorithm; 27. Orderly insertion; 28. Loopless functional algorithms; 29. The Johnson–Trotter algorithm; 30. Spider spinning for dummies; Index.

'… well-presented and well-motivated material strives to become a stepping stone to further discovery. Any serious computer scientist would benefit from reading and properly understanding this book.' Computing Reviews