At some point, you can’t get any further with linked lists, selection sort, and voodoo Big O, and you have to go get a real algorithms textbook and learn all that horrible math, at least a little. But which book? There are tons of them. I haven’t read every algorithms book out there, but I…
The joyous lion of theoretical computer science Boaz Barak is reporting on Avi Wigderson's book Mathematics and Computation which is on Avi's homepage. I read through an earlier version and it is highly recommended! Let me also recommend Avi's earlier survey on interaction between CS and math.