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At the end of 1999, these books were named among the best twelve physical-science monographs of the century by American Scientist , along with: Dirac on quantum mechanics, Einstein on relativity, Mandelbrot on fractals, Pauling on the chemical bond, Russell and Whitehead on foundations of mathematics, von Neumann and Morgenstern on game theory, Wiener on cybernetics, Woodward and Hoffmann on orbital symmetry, Feynman on quantum electrodynamics, Smith on the search for structure, and Einstein's collected papers. Wow!
View “historic” publisher's brochure from the first edition of Volume 1 (1968)
A complimentary downloadable PDF containing the collected indexes is available from the publisher to registered owners of the five-volume boxed set. This PDF includes the complete indexes of Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4A, and 4B, as well as the index to Volume 1 Fascicle 1. Registered owners of the earlier four-volume boxed set are, similarly, entitled to download an earlier collection of indexes. This earlier collection includes Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4A; Volume 1 Fascicle 1; and Volume 4 Fascicles 5 and 6.
eBook versions
These volumes are now available also in portable electronic form, using PDF format. Special care has been taken to make the search feature work well. Thousands of useful "clickable" cross-references are also provided — from exercises to their answers and back, from the index to the text, from the text to important tables and figures, etc.
Warning: Unfortunately, however, non-PDF versions have also appeared, against my recommendations, and those versions are frankly quite awful. A great deal of expertise and care is necessary to do the job right. If you have been misled into purchasing one of these inferior versions (for example, a Kindle edition), the publishers have told me that they will replace your copy with the PDF edition that I have personally approved. Do not purchase eTAOCP in Kindle format if you expect the mathematics to make sense. (The ePUB format may be just as bad; I really don't want to know, and I am really sorry that it was released.) Some non-PDF versions also masquerade as PDF.
The authorized PDF versions can be purchased at www.informit.com/taocp.
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