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Now I started to be an entertainment reporter :)
From today, 8g knuth is old: P
Legend LegendHruth Write a writing article is written in pencils.
Many people don't understand why he doesn't use the keyboard.
In fact, this is the case, Knuth has participated in a training small secret learning class.
Exercise typing is more than 80 words per minute.
Later, he found that his speed is much higher than his thinking speed.
So if he uses a keyboard, there will be a lot of stops.
So he decided to use a pencil so that it can be consistent with the reader's thinking speed.
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Knuth as a computer scientist,
Why do you put all his work for 10 years?
Established a research version of the typography and create a TEX system.
This is a very strange thing.
In fact, this is the case. The truly perfect math typography should be carried out with metal.
However, since the 1970s, people who truly understand this technology have been dead.
New typesetting machine, very unfortunately manipulated by computer (think about Matrix: P)
Although the computer can discharge some simple newspapers, magazines,
But they cannot process mathematical formulas very well.
Knuth wants to write a small game to create a beautiful mathematical formula on different computers,
So TEX (the first half of the reading Tech (NOLOGY) was born.
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Many people are satisfied with the algorithm of TEX.
In fact, only Knuth feels worried.
When he designed TEX, he heard that there was a book called AESTHETIC MeasureS.
The author is US NO.1 mathematician George David Birkhoff.
It is to say how to use mathematical formulas to measure "beauty".
He appreciated 7 Harvard libraries, including a library having a copy,
But it was borrowed. Helpless, run to MIT to borrow.
Fortunately, borrowed. Later, he joined a variable in TEX called Badness.
It is used to measure the beauty of a line. Badness, the more beautiful this line is.
But unlike Birkhoff, Knuth does not have much confidence in this formula.
Maybe because modesty.
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Knuth's book is typed in TEX, but it is not all designed.
Legend of Knuth and Graham, Patashnik works when writing Concrete Mathmatics
Please have a famous book layout designer to design the size of the book, font size, title style,
Later, Hermann Zapf specially designed a mathematical font called Euler.
Since then, the soul of the mathematician Euler is floating in CM ...
Another book designer tells Knuth a format math formula,
It is not to rank math, but only relative to the body.
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Everyone knows that the 1974 Tuling Awards awarded Knuth
Mainly because he wrote a masterpiece called the Art of Computer Programming
But unfortunately, many people can't understand, even don't believe
He has a name that does not "scientific" for this book.
Later, there is such a literature in many people's writings:
"The Act of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth."
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Knuth is a person who likes boast, this is no doubt.
There is already this kind of seedlings before he published the Art of Computer Programming.
When I haven't published it yet, at a meeting, I have someone to know his character.
Just say: "I guess the book name of this book you are writing is definitely 'an introduction to don knuth'."
Knuth replied: "Just opposite. I want to name it with your name."
The name of this person is "Art Evans".
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Knuth is a Ph.D. of Caltech Mathematics.
But he often said: "I wear a computer scientist's hat, not a mathematician hat."
This shows that he seems to have some views on mathematicians.
In his opinion, mathematician only knows "what is it",
And he also knows "how to do it".
This is the difference between the mathematics and computer science he believes.
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When Knuth returned to Stanford, the school made himself a title.
He chose one
Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming
He actually feels "computer science" is not scientific.
Although everyone hopes that the computer programming is scientific, this is the loyalty proposed by an ACM publication.
But Knuth feels strange why everyone likes to science,
So they instantly became scientific, and the method was called "Computer Science".
- Just Call IT "Computer Science": P
In his eyes, computer science is still a door art.
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In the eyes of Knuth, what is the difference between science and art?
Art is created by people, and science is not.
Art is always an endless improvement, and science is not.
Art needs talents to master, and science does not need, according to the class.
So, the ... art ... of computer programming!
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Knuth's ART ... FT, so long ... later referred to as TAOCP: P
... Not so good to start writing.
Legend has a day bob floyd to Knuth, a letter, open the door, say:
"DON, please don't use so many exclamation points!" The end of the letter hit at least five an exclamation.
After reading it, Knuth found that there are two exclamation points per pages in TAOCP! !
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Some people say that Knuth writes three volumes of TAOCP to study TEX, in fact, because they are afraid to write a fourth volume.
Many people have long hoped that he puts down the TEX and continue to write.
Knuth said: "A person must perfect things, only when he keeps harmony with God's intentions,
Now God wants me to write the fourth volume. "
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Knuth highly praised the random algorithm.
When he entered the homework, it is generally turned to a random page. Look at that page carefully, then there is a profile for the students' homework, and other parts will not be careful.
When you read the book, you first see page 316, if the book is short, look at page 100.
Look at the page carefully. After that, he can say that the book is good.
It is said that the correct rate of judgment is very high.
I don't know if many people learn to learn, see 316 and 100.
Write a book later, pay attention to write on page 316 or 100!
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Continue gossip :)
You know that Knuth invented a programming method called Literate Programming (literature programming)
Write the program as a literary work. This can create eternal works,
Even a few decades, some people use it as a reading after the meal.
Why should he invent this thing. The reason is 2:
1. He wanted a programmer (maybe he himself) got a Pully award on a certain day.
2. He wants those guys who propose "structured programming" (structured procedures)
When writing "non-literary procedures", it is like writing "non-structured procedures" that year.
I feel that I am guilty.
His "literary programming" is the earliest of the British Computer Journal published.
When people ask him why he is not published in the United States.
He said that Americans have no culture, they can't understand this thing.
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Today, write some 8G :)
Knuth likes to use "WE" in his work,
Although many times the article is written by him.
Some people think that the passive voice is good. But Knuth believes that passive voice should not be used in a large number.
"Use We can reduce the trouble brought by passive words.'We 'refers to you and your readers."
So how do you call the author? The answer is: The Authors, The First Author, or use the name directly.
But he does oppose the use of "I", unless you are named,
Everyone respected the king character, otherwise it is best not to use "I" in the paper.
When you describe your programs, I like to say "We INSERT The Element in the Heap"
Or "IT INSERTS THE ELEMENT IN THE HEAP"?
Knuth always likes to use "WE". Obviously he has been integrated into the action of the algorithm.
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Although he doesn't like the paper with "I", he likes to let his program claim to "i".
look here:
THIS IS TEX, VERSION 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7x)
! I can't find file `kkkk.tex '.
<*> kkkk.tex
Please type again, incompany:
There are a lot of people to learn from him, and put this styled naughty.
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Title: Gossip Knuth (16)
Knuth has a job that has been arranged, requiring one to make one within two weeks.
System for controlling the 8x256 pixel array display screen of the Times Square,
And write a user manual. This user manual must make people who don't understand the computer can understand.
After the job handed over, Knuth gave his document to his wife (Jill Knuth).
As a result, Jill could not touch the words "Menu" and "scroll" in the document.
Don't say "Left-Indented", "exit", ...
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Knuth once published in American Mathematical Monthly
The paper called "Toilet Paper Problem",
It is said to have an algorithm for studying how to use toilet paper.
Now included in Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms, p.111
Unfortunately, the Tsinghua Library did not. Who findes my copy. Ha ha.
When this paper passed Monthly, a large number of "feces" vocabulary was used in the section title.
Edit warning Knuth said, jokes are dangerous in us, please think twice!
No, Knuth later changed the words in the subtitle.
But he does not want to change the title of the article.
How to do it?
He gave edited a letter that I have done two speeches with this title.
This topic has been widely adopted and discussed ... cloud cloud.
Finally, editing, reply, "Your toilet is accepted!"
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P.S. Appendix: Add information about this paper:
The STANFORD computer science building can be discharged and discharges two-toiler paper.
When people go to the toilet, it is possible to take a paper from one of two.
When the two reels are different, they like to take paper from the big tube called Big-Chooser.
People who like to take paper from a small tube called Little-Chooser.
If the two cylinders are similar, the general people will pick up the paper from their nearest.
The toilet paper is usually provided by Janitor (the old uncle at the door.).
If you finish it, then change that side,
If you finish it at both sides, then someone has trouble ... (I suspect that Knuth has encountered it again :)
I didn't read it carefully.
Knuth seems to calculate the probability of calculating the two-cylindrical finished dilemma ... a copy of the original text:
http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn/homepage/015450/doc/toiletpaperProuperProblem.pdf
More complex mathematics ... Interested to see.
In addition, Don Norman has some newly designed toilet cartridges here to avoid this:
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/toiletPaperaLgorithms.html
It seems that Knuth is in the Bai Foot. Ignobel or igfields should be awarded :)
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Knuth and Graham They are written in Concrete Mathematics
Will n't do it.
As a result, they designed fonts, page styles, and
All exercises have given the source. Almost all pages have at least one graffiti,
Even the "Ai Li Roy" is included in the reference ...
What is going on? The reason is that Knuth went to see a movie during the writing:
"Snow White and Seven Dwarfs".
After reading, Knuth sighed:
Unbelievable, so perfect art can be completed in 1937.
I must make my book into an art, and I have to do it within three months!
As a result, he said.
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