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The font is "Computer Modern," the default LaTeX font. Nothing screams "I'm an academic engineering textbook!" quite like Computer Modern.

• eru 11y ago
  Concrete Roman could compete: http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-concrete.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-concrete.html
  • amelius 11y ago
    It is amazing that Knuth still had time left for some mathematics, between designing fonts :)
    • rspeer 11y ago
      It's amazing to me that he designed a program (METAFONT) to design fonts for him, and that the various outputs of this program actually are pretty good fonts.
    • mturmon 11y ago
      (Obligatory: http://www.xkcd.com/974/ http://www.xkcd.com/974/ -- but Knuth solved the arbitrary condiments problem, and others besides.) The Concrete Mathematics book that resulted was a masterpiece in my opinion. I learned so much about how to computationally do discrete math from that book. And it's a very elegant package.
  • mcguire 11y ago
    Didn't Hermann Zapf design the math font to go with CCR? [Answer] Yep, Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler