This document discusses greedy algorithms and dynamic programming. It explains that greedy algorithms find local optimal solutions at each step, while dynamic programming finds global optimal solutions by considering all possibilities. The document also provides examples of problems solved using each approach, such as Prim's algorithm and Dijkstra's algorithm for greedy, and knapsack problems for dynamic programming. It then discusses the matrix chain multiplication problem in detail to illustrate how a dynamic programming solution works by breaking the problem into overlapping subproblems.