Notes on the Exercises
While reading the book, the reader is stimulated to retrace and rediscover main principles and results. The acquisition of new topics challenges the reader to complement some missing pieces to compose the final puzzle. This is proposed by exercises at the end of each section that are designed for self-study as well as for classroom study. Following Donald Knuth's books organization, this way of presenting the material relies on the belief that “we all learn best the things that we have discovered for ourselves.” The exercises are properly classified and also rated with the purpose of explaining the expected degree of difficulty. A major difference concerns exercises and research problems. Throughout the book, the ...
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