The document discusses binary heaps and algorithms for building, inserting, and deleting elements from heaps. It begins by defining min-heaps and max-heaps, and the heap property that parent nodes are smaller than child nodes in min-heaps and larger in max-heaps. It then covers algorithms for inserting new elements by placing them at the bottom and bubbling up, deleting the minimum/maximum element by replacing it with the last element and bubbling down. The document concludes by explaining that building a heap from a list of elements can be done in linear time by placing elements in an array and percolating them down level-by-level.