====== Preface====== 

    My notes on Preface

===== Brief Summary =====
  - The idea of algorithms are pervasive, its applications can be found in just about every discipline.  
  - the subject of algorithms is a powerful lens through which to view the field of computer science in general.
  - algorithmic enterprise consists of **two** fundamental components: the task of getting to the __mathematically clean core of a problem__, and then the task of __identifying the appropriate algorithm design techniques__, based on the structure of the problem.
  - the more familiar one is with the different possible techniques, the closer one is to the clean mathematic core of the problem. 

===== Interesting scale =====
This chapter is an overview of the algorithm design, therefore it does not address any specific issues yet.
On a scale of 1-10, I give it a **5**.

===== Readable scale =====
It is a fairly straight-forward chapter. On a scale of 1-10, I give it a **9**.