Report Number: CS-TR-90-1313
Institution: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
Title: Book review: Potokovye Algoritmy (Flow Algorithms) by G. M.
Adel'son-Vel'ski, E. A. Dinic, and A. V. Karzanov.
Author: Goldberg, Andrew V.
Author: Gusfield, Dan
Date: June 1990
Abstract: This is a review of the book "Flow Algorithms" by
Adel'son-Vel'ski, Dinic, and Karzanov, well-known researchers
in the area of algorithm design and analysis. This remarkable
book, published in 1975, is written in Russian and has never
been translated into English. What is remarkable about the
book is that it describes many major results obtained in the
Soviet Union (and originally published in papers by 1976)
that were independently discovered later (and in some cases
much later) in the West. The book also contains some minor
results that we believe are still unknown in the West. The
book is well-written and a pleasure to read, at least for
someone fluent in Russian. Although the book is fifteen years
old and we believe that all the major results contained in it
are known in the West by now, the book is still of great
historical importance. Hence a complete review is in order.
[from the Introduction]
http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/90/1313/CS-TR-90-1313.pdf