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I’m planning to invest some time every week studying data structures and algorithms.
Do you recommend: “MIT Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition” by Cormen, Leiseson, Rivest and Stein?
AFAIK this book is legendary but I don’t know its target audience.
Is this book suitable for my purpose? or it is for academic studies? is it loaded with heavy math?
For Java I recommend Algorithms in Java, Parts 1-4 by Robert Sedgewick. And the companion book Algorithms in Java, Part 5: Graph Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick.
For general studies I also have the Introductions to Algorithms books, it is a good general reference. This Algorithms, Fourth Edition by Robert Sedgewick looks good as well, but probably covers a lot of stuff already in the previously mentioned books.
For Clojure, you will probably need to get a Functional based Algorithm book. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design looks like it might be a good companion to a the more general procedural books.