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Just out of curiousity, does anyone know what kind of notebooks and paper he’s using in the photo captioned “A few notes”?
by larrywright 8y ago
Just out of curiousity, does anyone know what kind of notebooks and paper he’s using in the photo captioned “A few notes”?
- svat 8y agoYes the notepaper with triangular tiling was gifted at Knuth's 80th birthday celebration in Piteå, Sweden: http://knuth80.elfbrink.se/ http://knuth80.elfbrink.se/ (Sorry I don't remember where I read/heard about this.)
- svat 8y agoAh one place I ran across this: see 16:05 of Knuth's 2017 Christmas lecture (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQw4CdxLr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQw4CdxLr8): > I got a nice piece of paper here to work with. They had a conference in Poland last year [BachoTeX 2016] and they sent me this nice pad of paper and I like it so much that I decided at my birthday party next month I gotta give out notepaper that's... [audio drowned by laughter] But actually the notepaper at my birthday party is going to be triangle... paper. Because I have a feeling that all kinds of mathematics has never been invented yet because people haven't been given triangle... [laughter].