Version eBook du TAOCP : préférez la version PDF : Sciences Classiques

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Hibou Administrateur	L’auteur du célèbre “ The Art Of Computer Programming ”, Donald Knuth, recommande lui même de préférer la version PDF pour les gens qui le veulent en version électronique, jugeant les autres versions électroniques, catastrophiques : The Art of Computer Programming (stanford.edu). Donald Knuth a écrit : 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.) Please do not tell me about errors that you find in a non-PDF eBook; such mistakes should be reported directly to the publisher. Some non-PDF versions also masquerade as PDF; you can tell an authorized version because its copyright page will say ‘Electronic version by Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP)’. En marge, de la même page, on apprend que de nouveaux tomes sont prévus, dont un sortira en 2025 — la première édition du premier tome était sortie en 1968.

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L’auteur du célèbre “ The Art Of Computer Programming ”, Donald Knuth, recommande lui même de préférer la version PDF pour les gens qui le veulent en version électronique, jugeant les autres versions électroniques, catastrophiques : The Art of Computer Programming (stanford.edu).

Donald Knuth a écrit :

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.) Please do not tell me about errors that you find in a non-PDF eBook; such mistakes should be reported directly to the publisher. Some non-PDF versions also masquerade as PDF; you can tell an authorized version because its copyright page will say ‘Electronic version by Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP)’.

En marge, de la même page, on apprend que de nouveaux tomes sont prévus, dont un sortira en 2025 — la première édition du premier tome était sortie en 1968.