The sixth part covers selected topics on algorithm design and analysis, such as linear programming, polynomial-time verification, NP-completeness and approximation algorithms. The fifth part deals with graph algorithms, such as breadth-first search, depth-first search, minimum spanning trees, shortest paths and network flow. The fourth part explores advanced data structures, such as dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, amortized analysis and Fibonacci heaps. The third part covers sorting and order statistics, such as insertion sort, merge sort, quicksort, heap sort and linear-time selection. The second part focuses on data structures, such as heaps, hash tables, binary search trees and red-black trees. The first part introduces the foundations of algorithms, such as asymptotic notation, recurrences, divide-and-conquer and randomized algorithms. The book is divided into eight parts, each containing several chapters. The book assumes some familiarity with basic programming concepts, discrete mathematics and calculus. The institution’s preference to reveal the collection in curated themed shows with extensive public programming - rather than simply showcasing individual purchases - speaks well of its educational and cultural mission.The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students of computer science, as well as professionals who need to use algorithms in their work. Many have never been exhibited before, such as Picasso’s Portrait of a Lady (1928). One could almost overlook the significance of the individual masterpieces the Abu Dhabi government has been quietly collecting since 2009. HE Zaki Nusseibeh, Adviser to the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, adds that culture is a living thing that grows and enriches a city over many generations. In a moment of humility, HE Mubarak Al Muhairi admits that “rather than going out on our own, and perhaps failing, these museums bring the know-how and expertise that does not exist in the UAE.” Considering that in 1961 Abu Dhabi had only one school, he makes a valid point. With a Louvre museum designed by Jean Nouvel, a Guggenheim by Frank Gehry and the Zayed National Museum by Norman Foster all under construction on the island, another point of contention has been the concept of buying culture from the West. It is an important part of our economic and social plan.” Perhaps you could ask this question in London or Paris where there are hundreds of museums, but not here. Today we are in a different time as we search for interconnectedness. Still, is the concept of a universal museum - one that aims to cover a continuum of ancient to contemporary art from all cultures and civilizations - outdated? The Director General of Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture, HE Mubarak Al Muhairi, told Flash Art: “For too long museums have been Western-centric. Under the 2007 intergovernmental agreement to create and define the first universal museum in the Arab world, the Louvre Abu Dhabi will display its own collection as well as rotating loans from the French National museums. And while there are unresolved tensions - for example between the museographical elements of a didactic historical narrative and the pure aesthetics of many of these works - the museum remains committed to what Laurence des Cars, curatorial director of Agence France-Muséums, calls “a global reading of the history of the world” - one that by necessity will evolve. The first gallery, for example, sees various figurations of the female body: a late third millennium BCE Bactrian princess stands alongside a Cypriot idol-statuette and Yves Klein’s Anthropometry (1960). In response to questions that have circulated around the new museum - Is it a Western Museum? Is it merely an annex of the Paris institution? - “Birth of a Museum” reveals that the thematic narrative at its core is a comparative, cross-cultural approach to art history. Divided into 10 thematic sections, on display are 130 of the 300 artworks already acquired. Following a number of delays and setbacks with the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s construction, the exhibition gives viewers a tangible hint of what to expect when the museum officially opens in 2015. On April 22, 2013, the much-anticipated Louvre Abu Dhabi exhibition “Birth of a Museum” opened in the galleries of Manarat Al Saadiyat on Saadiyat Island - Abu Dhabi’s ambitious cultural district expected to be completed by 2020.
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