#219 – Donald Knuth

09 Sep 2021

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #219:

1. Computability and Unsolvability by Martin Davis
2. Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, Greg Humphreys
3. The Funny Men by Steve Allen
4. Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind by Sir Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Ellen Langer, Rhawn Gabriel Joseph, Chris J. S. Clarke, L. Dossey, Ernest Lawrence Rossi, GianCarlo Ghirardi, Peter Sturrock, Edgarl D. Mitchel
5. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
6. Surreal Numbers by Donald Knuth
7. On Beyond Zebra! by Dr. Seuss
8. The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett

Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the “father of the analysis of algorithms”. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #62

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