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Shimon was a great computer scientist who inspired generations of Israeli
stutents and young researchers, including many future leaders of theoretical
computer science.
He was a master at creating combinatorial algorithms, constructions, and
proofs. He always sought the simplest and most lucid solutions. Because he
never allowed himself to use a known theoremunless he understood its proof, his
discoveries were often based on original methods. His lectures were legendary
for their clarity.
Shimon was devoted to his family, generous to his colleagues, and freely
available to the students in his classes.
He expressed his views forcefully and with complete honesty. He expected
honesty in return, and reserved his disapproval for those who tried to obfuscate
or mislead.
Shimon had an unending supply of interesting anecdotes, and would laugh
uproariously at good jokes, including his own.
In sum, he was a great and unforgettable man and a great scientist, and his
name has a permanent place in the annals of theoretical computer science.
Shimon Even's Graph Algorithms, published in 1979, was a seminal introductory book on algorithms read by everyone engaged in the field. This thoroughly revised second edition, with a foreword by Richard M. Karp and notes by Andrew V. Goldberg, continues the exceptional presentation from the first edition and explains algorithms in a formal but simple language with a direct and intuitive presentation. The book begins by covering basic material, including graphs and shortest paths, trees, depth-first-search, and breadth-first search. The main part of the book is devoted to network flows and applications of network flows, and it ends with chapters on planar graphs and testing graph planarity. |
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