From Mathematics to Generic Programming

I’m currently enjoying “From Mathematics to Generic Programming” by Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose. One thing about the book is that it’s a lot more interesting than what a cursory scan of the table of contents would suggest. An O(log n) algorithm for multiplication doesn’t seem interesting at first. But the authors do an amazing job of starting from familiar ideas and building up to surprisingly beautiful and elegant ideas. I think I’m finally able to grok c++ templates half way through this book. One unfortunate downside to this book is that the authors wrote this before concepts were introduced in c++20. I would love to see an updated edition of this book that use the real c++20 concepts. However, this doesn’t diminish my recommendation for this book.