I probably won't be as good at explaining as others but I will try. I think the books are like a synthesis of the art, and not designed for the teaching of the

I probably won't be as good at explaining as others but I will try. I think the books are like a synthesis of the art, and not designed for the teaching of the regular guy. He has a book to help approach the math called concrete math. Anyway the books start from nearly bare knowledge where the reader creates MMIX a reduced instruction set he made for the books I think, which he uses in the rest of the book to illustrate how machine level works. Anyway he has spent his life working on these and they cover the breadth of general things like algorithmic knowledge. Sorry if I got things wrong