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Reading a few of the written summaries, I’m finding them lacking. They often elide or even misstate important details and definitions; and the things the author
by npinsker 3y ago
Reading a few of the written summaries, I’m finding them lacking. They often elide or even misstate important details and definitions; and the things the author focuses on are sometimes odd and make me think they aren’t able to understand the mathematics.
- svat 3y agoWhatever small faults there may be, each year these are the only reporting of these lectures at this level of detail. And the attention to humorous anecdotes or Knuthisms is not a problem; these are what those of us who attended the talk also remember. (The actual mathematics is often just a paragraph or two, or one problem and solution, in TAOCP and can be read there -- which is another indication of how "packed" the books are.)