Peter Brass received a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He is an associate professor at City College, City University of New York in the Department of Computer Science and a former Heisenberg Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.

'I think this book is well suited as a main or supplemental text in a graduate-level data structures course, not to mention an invaluable desk reference for those interested in implementing the advance structures outlined in this book. This book was a joy to review, and deserves a place on my bookshelf.' SIGACT News

• 1. Elementary structures; 2. Search types; 3. Balanced search trees; 4. Tree structures for sets of intervals; 5. Heaps; 6. Union-find and related structures; 7. Data structure transformations; 8. Data structures for strings; 9. Hash tables; 10. Appendix.

Peter Brass received a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He is an associate professor at City College, City University of New York in the Department of Computer Science and a former Heisenberg Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.

'I think this book is well suited as a main or supplemental text in a graduate-level data structures course, not to mention an invaluable desk reference for those interested in implementing the advance structures outlined in this book. This book was a joy to review, and deserves a place on my bookshelf.' SIGACT News

• 1. Elementary structures; 2. Search types; 3. Balanced search trees; 4. Tree structures for sets of intervals; 5. Heaps; 6. Union-find and related structures; 7. Data structure transformations; 8. Data structures for strings; 9. Hash tables; 10. Appendix.

Peter Brass received a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He is an associate professor at City College, City University of New York in the Department of Computer Science and a former Heisenberg Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.

'I think this book is well suited as a main or supplemental text in a graduate-level data structures course, not to mention an invaluable desk reference for those interested in implementing the advance structures outlined in this book. This book was a joy to review, and deserves a place on my bookshelf.' SIGACT News

• 1. Elementary structures; 2. Search types; 3. Balanced search trees; 4. Tree structures for sets of intervals; 5. Heaps; 6. Union-find and related structures; 7. Data structure transformations; 8. Data structures for strings; 9. Hash tables; 10. Appendix.