Computational Intractability:
A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds

by Erik D. Demaine, William Gasarch, and Mohammad Hajiaghayi
MIT Press, 2024
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Video lectures about some of this book's material are available from the related class at MIT, Algorithmic Lower Bounds: Fun with Hardness Proofs.