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Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Top 10 scientific algorithms

Reference:

Science, Vol. 287, No. 5454, p. 799, February 2000

Computing in Science & Engineering. (January, 2000).

Huo Hongwei 1

Heros of Algorithms

Euclid Al-Khwarizmi Hilbert Alan M.Turing

History

– The word algorithm is derived from the name of Abu

Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a 9th-

century Persian mathematician

Q: What is GCD?

Huo Hongwei 2

Brief History of Algorithms

300 B.C. 1910.

– Euclid's gcd algorithm. Pocklington: bit complexity.

780-850 A.D.

1920-1936.

– Abu Ja'far Mohammed Ben

Musa al-Khwarizmi. Post, Goëdel, Church, Turing.

1424 A.D. 1965.

– π= 3.1415926535897932… Edmonds: polynomial vs.

exponential algorithms.

1845.

– Lamé: Euclid's algorithm 1971.

takes at most 1 + logφ(n√5) Cook's Theorem, Karp

steps.

reductions.

1900.

th 20xx.

– Hilbert's 10 problem.

P ≠NP ???

Huo Hongwei 3

Top 10 Algorithms of 20th Century

Computing in Science & Engineering. (January, 2000).

Science, Vol. 287, No. 5454, p. 799, February 2000

"the greatest influence on the development and practice of science

and engineering in the 20th century"

"For me, great algorithms are the poetry of computation. Just like

verse, they can be terse, allusive, dense, and even mysterious. But

once unlocked, they cast a brillian