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In Memory of Philippe Flajolet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2014

Robert Sedgewick
Robert Sedgewick*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
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In 2011, shortly after his untimely passing, several colleagues and I wrote an obituary for Philippe Flajolet [5] that includes the following:

He was the leading figure in the development of the international ‘AofA’ community that is devoted to research on probabilistic, combinatorial, and asymptotic methods in the analysis of algorithms. The colleagues and students who are devoted to carrying on his work form the core of his primary legacy.

This special issue is testimony to that legacy. Many of the dozens of authors who are represented here worked closely with Philippe; many others have been inspired by his work. All are devoted to carrying it on.

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Obituary
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 23 , Issue 5: Honouring the Memory of Philippe Flajolet - Part 1 , September 2014 , pp. 631 - 634
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

References

[1]Flajolet, P. (1988) Mathematical methods in the analysis of algorithms and data structures. Chapter 6 in Trends in Theoretical Computer Science (Börger, E., ed.), Computer Science Press, pp. 225–304. (Lecture Notes for A Graduate Course in Computation Theory, Udine, 1984.)Google Scholar
[2]Flajolet, P. and Sedgewick, R. (2012) An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms, second edition. Addison-Wesley.Google Scholar
[3]Flajolet, P. and Sedgewick, R. (2009) Analytic Combinatorics, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
[4]Knuth, D. E. (1968, 1969, 1973) The Art of Computer Programming, vols 1, 2, 3. Addison-Wesley.Google Scholar
[5]Salvy, B., Sedgewick, R., Soria, M., Szpankowski, W. and Vallée, B. (2011) Obituary: Philippe Flajolet. J. Symbolic Comput. 46 1085–1086. (Also published in several other journals.)Google Scholar
[6]Zweig, S. (1946) Balzac, translated by William and Dorothy Rose, The Viking Press.Google Scholar