Wednesday 4 November 2015

Wikipedia articles

In these blog entries, I often provide links to Wikipedia articles. In my experience, Wikipedia articles tend to be rather good in the fields of computer science and operations research. They have been refined by experts and often give introductions to topics that are illuminating while remaining concise. I particularly like what these articles contain about the history of methods. For example, who was Dijkstra, for whom Dijkstra's algorithm is named? (One might guess from the name that he must be a Ducthman!)

One needs to be critical, but errors tend to be few since many eagle-eyed persons have poured over the articles. For example, the articles on Max-flow min-cut theorem and Konig's theorem are interesting to read in conjunction with Lecture 10.