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Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming, volume 4 (fascicles). It is really comprehensive (but the algorithm descriptions are not easy to read).

Also you may be interested in the theory of combinatorial species (look it up on wikipedia; this system does not allow me to include more than 1 hyperlinks, which I find pretty stupid to be honest...).