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⬐ KoshkinI was expecting to see 3:14 on the cover!⬐ smitty1eAlways with the pi-ous jokes...
> You can safely ignore it, the document is just a summary of Knuth's book.Knuth is a Lutheran, by the way (uh-oh). He even wrote 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated[1].
[1] https://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/08957...
⬐ dhosekPerhaps even more interesting is Knuth’s Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About which goes into a bit more of his religious life and how he applies some mathematical techniques (particularly Monte Carlo–style random selection). The genesis of 3:16 (so to speak) is discussed as well.⬐ globular-toastKnuth isn't evangelical, though. Like Bach and many others, Knuth's works could be classified as either religious or secular. He doesn't shoehorn religion into every work.⬐ maxbondI didn't know that, that's interesting. Thank you.To clarify, I didn't mean, you can ignore it because it's irrelevant, as much as, you can derive the bulk of the value from the text if you ignore the introduction.
Probably Donald Knuth's book "3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated" where Knuth goes through chapter 3, verse 16, of most books in the Bible.http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/316.html
http://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/089579...
While we’re at it, Knuth has also released a book (which is just transcripts of 5-6 lectures) wherein he discusses the 3:16 project: "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About"
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/things.html
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Computer-Scientist-Language-Inf...
Don Knuth is a Christian, as he sometimes mentions in talks or things he's written. He also wrote this book which discusses each 3:16 verse in the bible http://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/089579...
⬐ Dewie3A white American being Christian is so common that I wonder why the original poster felt that this was worth emphasizing.⬐ tokenrove⬐ ten7As Knuth himself acknowledged in "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About", it's rare among CS researchers.Thank you for answering my question.