The design and analysis of algorithms is one of the two essential cornerstone topics in computer science (the other being automata theory/theory of computation) Every computer scientist has a copy of Knuth's works on algorithms on his or her shelf Dexter Kozen, a researcher and professor at Cornell University, has written a text for graduate study озсдщ of algorithms This will be an important reference book as well as being a useful graduate-level textbook.  MicrosoISBN 0387976876.