• T. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I had a computer science professor who taught mathematical induction with one example proof. I didn’t get it, so I went to office hours, and she painstakingly went through the same example proof. I didn’t get it.

    Then I went to the library on found Donald Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming. I think it was the very first chapter that did the trick.

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      2 days ago

      That’s like not understanding a sermon so you go straight to the bible. TAOCP is such a dense book. I wonder if Knuth will ever finish it.