Asked to recommend an intro algorithms text, I had no idea, but was curious and checked out the most popular ones. They’re all awful—not as books—but because the material covered shouldn’t be taught at that level. It’s mostly junk. Historical curiosities & intellectualization.
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The claimed result of Milikan’s oil drop experiment to measure the charge on the electron is notoriously difficult to replicate. The the most important lesson from such work may be how much science is not a mechanical process of turning data into truth.
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