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A comment on Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]. Parent comment

Re:Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Co... by jjice on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:35PM (#42975918)
These are the kinds of stories I love from HN! Stories of theory meeting practice are my absolute favorite.

My dad got me a set of TAoCP a few years back as a birthday gift (before 4b) and I realized that I do not have the background to even begin on 1 (at least not without some daily devotion of time). Maybe I'll have to take some more time and try again.

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Re:Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Co... by Breza on Thursday February 13, 2025 @02:23PM (#43040106)
I suggest picking up Knuth's Concrete Mathematics. It helps you get used to the math in TAoCP as well as his writing style, which manages to be simultaneously rigorous, serious, and humorous.
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