This document discusses the heap data structure and heapsort algorithm. It defines a heap as a nearly complete binary tree that satisfies the heap property, where every parent node is greater than or equal to its children. It describes how to represent a heap using an array and the key operations of building a max-heap from an array, inserting and deleting nodes, and maintaining the heap property. Heapsort works by building a max-heap from the input array and then extracting elements in sorted order.