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> You can safely ignore it, the document is just a summary of Knuth's book. Knuth is a Lutheran, by the way (uh-oh). He even wrote 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated

• maxbond 5y ago
  I didn't know that, that's interesting. Thank you. To clarify, I didn't mean, you can ignore it because it's irrelevant, as much as, you can derive the bulk of the value from the text if you ignore the introduction.
• dhosek 5y ago
  Perhaps even more interesting is Knuth’s Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About which goes into a bit more of his religious life and how he applies some mathematical techniques (particularly Monte Carlo–style random selection). The genesis of 3:16 (so to speak) is discussed as well. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157586326X/donhosek http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157586326X/donhosek
• globular-toast 5y ago
  Knuth isn't evangelical, though. Like Bach and many others, Knuth's works could be classified as either religious or secular. He doesn't shoehorn religion into every work.