{"id":506,"date":"2008-01-13T21:42:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T11:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/01\/13\/knuths-greatest-ever-paper\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T23:52:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T13:52:01","slug":"knuths-greatest-ever-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/01\/13\/knuths-greatest-ever-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Knuth&#8217;s Greatest Ever Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere tilted on its axis slightly last week when Donald Knuth had a birthday, and every Computer Science geek rushed to provide a tribute.<\/p>\n<p>I would forgive them their enthusiasm &#8211; after all Donald Knuth is to Computer Science what Newton was to Physics. If you look into interesting areas in virtually any field of Computer Science, you&#8217;ll find Knuth was there first.<\/p>\n<p>What I won&#8217;t forgive is that none of the dozen or so tributes I read to him mentioned his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/users\/arvindn\/misc\/knuth_song_complexity.pdf\">greatest ever paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For shame!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere tilted on its axis slightly last week when Donald Knuth had a birthday, and every Computer Science geek rushed to provide a tribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[141,371,227],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doubleplus-geek","category-humour","tag-computer-science","tag-humour","tag-knuth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}