A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! … - Donald Knuth

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A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

Donald Knuth

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About Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth (born 10 January 1938) is an American computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, and winner of the 1974 Turing Award.

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Native Name: Donald Ervin Knuth

Alternative Names: Donald E. Knuth • Don Knuth • D.E.K. • DEK • Knuth

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The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

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Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. - Donald Knuth

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