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The acclaimed author of?A Tour of the Calculus?and?The Infinite Ascent?offers an enlightening and enthralling tour of the basics of mathematics, and reveals a world of fascination in fundamental mathe
Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the worl
