How did PhD student Thomas Cormen write a million-copies computer science textbook?

Опубликовано: 25 Март 2022
на канале: Frank Stajano Explains

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00:00 Intro
01:27 What are you proudest of in 4th ed?
04:03 Roles of the four authors?
05:36 The copy-editor Julie Sussman
08:23 Why a fourth edition?
11:20 Where is the fancy stuff used in real life?
13:54 How long did it take to write every new edition of the book?
16:54 How did the book get written in the first place?
23:33 Is it a good move to write a textbook as a PhD student?
25:31 What is the secret sauce for a successful book?
29:50 Choice of publisher
33:55 Advice for readers of the book

The "Introduction to Algorithms" textbook by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein is one of the most cited books in computer science. I interview Professor Cormen as the fourth edition of the textbook is about to hit the bookstores. How did it happen that a young MIT graduate student put his PhD on hold to write this wildly successful book?

CLRS-4 web page:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introd...

Professor Cormen's web page:
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/

My algorithms lecture course at Cambridge, based on this book:
• Watch https://youtu.be/QhOEklbHqaY in...

My web page:
http://stajano.com