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From: joe@oucs.UUCP (Joseph Judge)
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Subject: Re: Who is Knuth? -- the amazing answer!
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 10:29:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 10:29:23 1986
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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

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Who is Knuth? Next thing you know people will be asking Who is Robert Kowalski?

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