The 'Art' of Being Donald Knuth.
An interview with computer scientist Donald Knuth is presented. He discusses his family background in which there was no tradition of higher education. Other topics include his interest in music when he was young, his interest during sophomore year in college in a class on discreet mathematics, and...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 35 - 40 |
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| Format: | Interview |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jul2008
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