The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

philips

Where can the books be found in PDFs for purchase?! First time I have heard of a non paperback novel. Obviously I know I can probably find them on the high seas.

jagged-chisel

About $340 for the full set of eBooks. Also: "Please do not tell me about errors that you find in an eBook, whether it's PDF or not, unless the same errors are present in a printed copy; such mistakes should be reported directly to the publisher." Glad he thought to mention this, but I suspect his inbox will still be inundated.

TheChaplain

I am not a believer, but pray that whichever $DEITY is watching over Donald Knuth allows him a healthy and long life to reach the achievement of finishing volume 7.

small_model

Don't feed the pdfs into Fable, compile a email of errors -> Knuth

sourdecor

I really like the books listed in the link to American Scientist's book recommendations[0] on that page. [0]: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/100-or-so-books-th...

ocd

I'm sure most of it is above my head, but I purchased the entire set in a mispricing for approximately ~$40 some time ago, and I'm really happy to have it in my library.

laichzeit0

I wonder how many of the problems he lists on https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html could be solved/checked with something like Fable at this point.

zerr

The valuable prose aside, I never liked that code examples were in a pseudo assembly language.

klik99

After years of dipping into random chapters for reference I read through the first 2.5 volumes sequentially until life got too busy. I plan on gifting the current full set to myself this xmas- but even if you just dip into it like a coffee table book it’s a wonderful read that breaks up tough sections with humor.

jdnier

From Future Plans... > And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only if the things I want to say about those topics are still relevant and still haven't been said. Volumes 1--5 represent the central core of computer programming for sequential machines; the subjects of Volumes 6 and 7 are important but more specialized.

dolmen

Latest Knuth preprint: "Fillomino Densities", dated 2026-07-01 From a previous preprint titled "Claude’s Cycle", dated 2026-02-28 [2]: It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving. I’ll try to tell the story briefly in this note. [1] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/fillomino-... [2] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cyc...

jll29

Receiving one of Don's cheques ("Bank of San Serif" ;-) a few months after pointing out an error has been many a computer scientist's career highlight!

jzer0cool

Let C, chapters V, volumes W, words Is Knuth producing V, optimally and asymptomatically approaches O(n)? Explain. If not O(n) the explain how to approach or better.

vivzkestrel

35000 Rs for these books?????????????? are you serious? you could buy groceries for 6 months on that price