{"id":617,"date":"2008-01-10T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-01-10T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:58:45","slug":"happy-birthday-donald-e-knuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Donald E. Knuth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu\/~knuth\/\">Don Knuth<\/a>&#8216;s 70th birthday.  He is a giant in the field of computing science, and wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TeX\">TeX<\/a>, the mathematical typesetting system that is used in the vast majority of scientific writing today.<\/p>\n<p>A great many people are writing birthday tributes today (you can start <a href=\"http:\/\/recursed.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/happy-birthday-donald-knuth.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I do not usually have the mental energy to delve into his monumental (and still-incomplete) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming\">The Art of Computer Programming<\/a>, but whenever I do, it&#8217;s always rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>And his volume of commentaries on all the verses numbered <a href=\"http:\/\/www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu\/~knuth\/316.html\">3:16<\/a> of the Bible, illustrated by the world&#8217;s greatest calligraphers and typographers, is delightful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Don Knuth&#8216;s 70th birthday. He is a giant in the field of computing science, and wrote TeX, the mathematical typesetting system that is used in the vast majority of scientific writing today. A great many people are writing birthday tributes today (you can start here). I do not usually have the mental energy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday, Donald E. Knuth!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}