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My advisor would always make a joke to his classes, when that book came up, that it had a dual purpose name - - that it was foundational, but also because it
by _asummers 10y ago
My advisor would always make a joke to his classes, when that book came up, that it had a dual purpose name - - that it was foundational, but also because it's hard as concrete. I used it as reference in some of my math classes but haven't given it a thorough read.
- Jtsummers 10y agoWe worked through about 1/3 of the material starting one summer term (where we started on TAOCP) and finishing sometime in the fall. Definitely hard, but it also helped me finally understand a lot of math that I "knew" but hadn't yet grokked.