Textbooks

• Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani. On reserve at Grainger. Very readable and nice book.

  A draft is available here for free.

  You are NOT required to buy it.

Other recommended reading:

• Jeff Erickson's course material from Spring 2010 (highly recommended).
• Chandra Chekuri's class notes from Fall 2009.
• Mahesh Viswanathan's class notes from Spring 2008.
• Sariel Har-Peled's course material (mostly for the graduate level).
• Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein. On reserve at Grainger. A good book to have if you want to start a fire.
• Computers and Intractability by Garey and Johnson. On reserve at Grainger.
• Jon Kleinberg and Éva Tardos. Algorithm Design. Addison-Wesley, 2005. Overpriced.