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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Who is Knuth? -- the amazing answer!
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Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 23:44:57 EST
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Due to overwhelming response:

	Donald Knuth is a professor at Stanford University
(PHY@SU-AI.ARPA).  He has written three volumes of an encyclopedia of
Computer Science, called *The Art of Computer Programming*.  The first
volume is on Fundamental Algorithms, the second is on Seminumerical
Algorithms, and the third is on Sorting and Searching.  I don't know
whether Knuth is ever going to finish the series -- he originally
intended seven volumes, but I hear rumours that the number is going to
change.  And I hear rumours that he is never going to get back to the
project.  He has become heavily involved in the computer typesetting of
mathematics -- the result of which was TeX, a text-formatter designed
for typesetting mathematics.

This is the premier work on Computer Science in the world.

	You can get *The Art of Computer Programming* at every
university bookstore I have ever been to.  Or you can write Addison
Wesley, who publishes it.  The ISBN on volume 1 is 0-201-03809-9.

-- 
Laura Creighton		
ihnp4!hoptoad!laura 
laura@lll-crg.arpa