Invisible wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Good to know you know Knuth.
> 
> Only because of TeX. (And, obviously, that large tome he wrote, who's 
> exact name currently escapes me.) I couldn't tell you much else about him.

The Art of Computer Programming
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html

>> That man is a true barroque in spirit.
> 
> Apparently...

he also plays Bach on the organ... I said Bach was a mathematician's 
favorite.  Fugue is recursion after all...

> "Hey, I wanna write a book. Ah, damn it, let me just quickly dash off a 
> state-of-the-art digital typesetting system and design a set of 
> cutting-edge portable custom typefaces first, and then I'll get right on 
> it..."

not to mention that large tome covers pretty much every algorithm known 
to man.

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