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Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A-E Boxed Set View Larger Image | Donald E. Knuth
Addison-Wesley, Hardcover, Published December 2000, ISBN 0201734168 | List Price: $199.95
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Donald E. Knuth's five volumes on Computers & Typesetting
comprise the definitive user guides and thoroughly documented program code for
the TeX and METAFONT systems. This open-source software is widely used around
the world by scientists, mathematicians, and others to produce high-quality,
aesthetically pleasing text, especially where technical content is included.
TeX and METAFONT have now reached a state of maturity that few
pieces of software have ever been able to achieve. The start of the Millennium
is a perfect time to offer users and libraries the opportunity to fill their
reference shelves with an up-to-date and comprehensive collection of Knuth's
work, as well as to encourage a broad audience of software developers to learn
from the complete, robust, and portable systems built by a master programmer.
This Millennium Boxed Set -- five elegantly printed books
that describe their own method of creation -- celebrates Knuth's monumental
coupling of programming and typography. Originally published in 1986, each volume
has changed so much in subsequent printings that nearly every page has been
touched in some way. Improvements to the books have followed developments in
digital printing technology; they also reflect corrections submitted over the
years by thousands of volunteers. The volumes in this box are the latest and
most accurate versions yet published.
If you have earlier printings of Knuth's books, or holes in your
collection, the Millennium Boxed Set makes updating easy. If you have
none of the books, you now can conveniently get them all at once. Whether your
work requires that you generate superbly formatted text, or that you hone the
skills needed for writing your own successful programs, you will find these
volumes to be an immediately valuable resource, as well as a treasure for future
generations.
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