Computer Arithmetic Algorithms (English, Israel Koren)

how arithmetic performed in the guts of the computer

important for a fundamental understanding of how computers work

Excellent but challenging book on computer arithmetic algorithms

Although I found this book very challenging to read at times, the author gave enough examples for each algorithm to help steer me in the right direction. To succeed in reading and understanding the book's content one has to carefully work through the examples and practice with self-created ones to help get the needed insight. Many of the terse explanations and equations require careful thought and analysis from the reader. Often I found myself working out the deatails of some equation to convince myself of the author's assertion. In other words, one has to be actively engaged when working throug the book. The reward for doing seems very profound: namely one gains an understanding of how arithmetic is efficiently performed, and how transcendental functions are realized on a computer. The ability to reduce the foundations of mathematics to a Boolean structural level will no doubt find many applications that go far beyond hardware arithmetic component design. With that said, from basic addition to cosh and sinh, the author delivers as advertised. Dr. Koren has an impressive mastery of this subject.