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Donald E. Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming - Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms – Third Edition is a comprehensive classic work newly updated and revised. Each chapter is complemented with real-world examples, a large number of exercises with solutions, a brief history, and the implementation of various algorithms. Fundamental Algorithms begins with mathematical preliminaries, and eventually takes readers on a magnificent tour de force through its extensive discussions of all the necessary concepts. About Donald Ervin Knuth Donald Knuth is an American mathematician and computer scientist, who has been highly revered as the Father of the Analysis of Algorithms. He is the Professor Emeritus at the Stanford University. His pioneering book, The Art of Computer Programming, is a multi-volume work that has been used as an extensive resource across the globe. He created the TeX computer typesetting system, the Computer Modern family of typefaces, and the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system. His other scholarly works include the creation of WEB and CWEB computer programming systems. Knuth is a prolific writer; some of his other famous books are Literate Programming, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, The Stanford GraphBase, TEX: The Program, and Computer Modern Typefaces.