Conversation

The Art of Computer Science is a multiple volume book that Donald Knuth has taken upon himself to complete one day. He’s been working on it for decades and he’s still not finished. The fact that the unwritten volumes contains stuff I’ve heard about suggests what a vast field he has chosen to cover. Even the list of chapters on Wikipedia is a little bit overwhelming.

“Computer science” is about as specific a term as “mathematics”. Not even the top mathematicians are experts in every branch.