This book——by a noted authority and educator in the field——presents computer
science theory from a uniquely intuitive,“big picture”perspective.The author grounds his clear and interesting study on broad mathematical princi-ples,not low-level technical details:proofs are presented with a “proof idea”component that re-
veals the concetp underlying the mathematical formalism.Similarly,algorithms are pr-esented using prose rather than pseudocode to focus attention on the algorithms the-
mselves,r