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[Alan Garrison]

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> Alan Garrison <agarris@voyager.net> writes:
> 
> > Ben suggested Knuth:  Read Knuth but only if you have a
> > pretty solid math background.  I picked up his first book
> > a while ago, and my brain is still sore from trying some of
> > the material (Holy fsck I have forgotten a lot of math
> > since school!!!  I'm getting old...)
> 
> Of course one possible solution is to ignore all the math and
> just jump to the algorithms that he presents.  You learn less
> this way but you still get all the useful results.  I'll admit
> that I don't understand all of Knuth's math.  

My problem:  I was starting to lose him on page 7.  :(
I really, really need a refresher.  I took AP Calculus in 
high school and I have forgotten 95% of it.

> Another good idea is to buy Knuth's "math review" book, _Concrete
> Mathematics_.  I recently purchased this myself.  It's like a
> 600-page expansion of the first chapter of _TAoCP_.

Excellent!  Just what I need.  Lately I've been going thru 
my old college math and CS notes (groaning loudly on how 
sh1tty of a student I was/is).  Another excuse to go to  
Schulers (just hit Amazon.com, the book has 4.5 of 5 stars).

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