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The Art of Computer Programming is Knuth's multivolume analysis of algorithms. With the addition of this new volume, it continues to be the definitive description of classical computer science.
Volume 4B, the sequel to Volume 4A, extends Knuth's exploration of combinatorial algorithms. These algorithms are of keen interest to software…
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Knuth is perhaps the true founder of Computer Science, who set out in the late 1960s to produce a seven-volume series of books containing all the foundations of the discipline.
Three volumes appeared by 1973, after which he got distracted by many other things, and the promised volumes seemed destined never to emerge. But Knuth finished Volume 4A in 2011, after a lapse of 35 years. And then, in the Fall of 2022, at the age of 84, he published the 712-page Volume 4B: Combinatorial Algorithms Part II!
There is nothing in the world like a Knuth book. He has…
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