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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms

Donald E. Knuth info

First published 1969

Volume 2 of The Art of Computer Programming

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Random numbers and arithmetic, with some of the most beautiful analysis in computing.

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The author

Donald E. Knuth

born 1938 · American computer scientist and mathematician

  • Kyoto Prize
  • National Medal of Science
  • Turing Award
  • Professor at Caltech
Profession
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Professor
Worked at
Caltech, Stanford, Burroughs Corporation, Institute for Defense Analyses
Studied at
Caltech, Case Western Reserve University
Studied under
Marshall Hall
Prizes
Turing Award (1974), National Medal of Science (1979), Kyoto Prize (1996), Guggenheim Fellowship (1972), Leroy P. Steele Prize (1986), Franklin Medal (1988), Harvey Prize (1995), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010), Faraday Medal (2011), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2003), Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013), Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971), Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1975), Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1978), Fellow of the British Computer Society (1980), W. Wallace McDowell Award (1980), ACM Software System Award (1986), ACM Fellow (1994), IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1995), Computer History Museum Fellow (1998), Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009), Turing Talk (2011), John von Neumann Prize (2016)

Sends a $2.56 cheque to anyone who finds an error in his books.

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Prerequisite: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1 (Knuth)

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