The Art of Computer Programming
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The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most of what they know about computer programming.
-Byte, September 1995
I can't begin to tell you how many pleasurable hours of study and recreation they have afforded me! I have pored over themā¦
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Knuthās unique mix of playfulness and rigor came to define computer science as an intellectual discipline: computer science didnāt really have anything to do with computers, but everything to do with a particular way of seeing the world. Just browse and wonder at the beauty and precision achieved in these books.
Volume 3 (Sorting and Searching) is my personal favorite, and I encourage you to start there. During the pandemic, I finally got around to reading Volume 4A (Combinatorial Algorithms), which was published thirty plus years after Volume 3. It was the same feeling I had watching the movie Theā¦
From Steven's list on mathematical and algorithmic thinking.
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