In this volume’s introduction, Knuth confesses that when he drew up the plans for the books, he expected that there would only be enough material on combinatorial algorithms to fill a slim ...

Although many of us may be unfamiliar with the name Donald Knuth, not so computer scientists and programmers. According to the Online hacker Jargon file (Jargon File 4.2.3), "Knuth" is "mythically, ...