PART ONE PRELIMINARIES

1.Introduction and Historical Review OR What’s It All About？

2.Algorithms and Data OR Getting It Done

3.Programming Languages OR Getting It Done by Computer

PART TWO METHODS AND ANALYSIS

4.Algorithmic Methods OR Getting It Done Methodically

5.The Correctness of Algorithms OR Getting It Done Right

6.The Efficiency of Algorithms OR Getting It Done Cheaply

PART THREE LIMITATIONS AND ROBUSTNESS

7.Inefficiency and Intractability OR You Can’t Always Get It Done Cheaply

8.Noncomputability and Undecidability OR Sometimes You Can’t Get It Done at All！

9.Algorithmic Universality and Its Robustness OR The Simplest Machines that Get It Done

PART FOUR RELAXING THE RULES

10.Parallelism and Concurrency OR Getting It Done by Cooperating

11.Probabilistic Algorithms OR Getting It Done by Tossing Coins

12.Algorithmics and Intelligence OR Are They Better at It than Us？

Postscript

Bibliographic Notes

Index