[chipkey]

Kleinberg/Tardos book that I am reading right now needs trimming for brevity. A good math text editor could, probably, easily lop off 1/3 of it without affecting its content. Otherwise I prefer it to most other algo books because its proofs are closest to how mathematicians approach their proofs. By contrast, I am confused as to why CLRS contains proofs at all. At the beginning of the book, the authors say something to the effect of actual proofs being too messy/hard so they simply wave their hands through them. But if most any intro discrete math books can do these proofs, why can't CLRS? To me it's a turn-off.