About the author
Brian Christian is an American writer, researcher, poet, and programmer whose books examine the human implications of computer science and artificial intelligence. His background joins technical questions to philosophy and everyday experience.
Algorithms to Live By, written with Tom Griffiths, explains when formal problem-solving ideas transfer usefully to ordinary choices—and when computational limits tell us to stop optimizing.
Where to start
Start with Algorithms to Live By for computer-science ideas about searching, scheduling, sorting, uncertainty, and good-enough decisions.
