The Art Of Computer Programming

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I felt like spending some money today, so I ordered the boxed set of the first 3 volumes of Donald Knuth's classic standard reference works The Art Of Computer Programming. Now I feel very geeky :-) No serious computer scientist should be without, really.

At the end of 1999, these books were named among the best twelve physical-science monographs of the century by American Scientist, along with: Dirac on quantum mechanics, Einstein on relativity, Mandelbrot on fractals, Pauling on the chemical bond, Russell and Whitehead on foundations of mathematics, von Neumann and Morgenstern on game theory, Wiener on cybernetics, Woodward and Hoffmann on orbital symmetry, Feynman on quantum electrodynamics, Smith on the search for structure, and Einstein's collected papers. Wow!