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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by rbkillea on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:51PM (#18808840)
By Ctrl+F'ing, I find 5 mentions of the word "master", none of which are the master theorem. I prefer this to CLRS as, while it's a neat trick, it tends to result in a bunch of people memorising the cases (and taking a "because the book told me to" level of understanding away from that part of the course).
Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by jefferickson on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @09:52PM (#18812436)
Exactly. The students should be the masters, not the theorem.