Reviews for Gates to the new city

The average rating for Gates to the new city based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-14 00:00:00 Gustaaf Plancke A short story: some years ago, a Silicon Valley institution existed named Computer Literacy Bookshop founded by a couple of friends and run by a 3rd. They sold the shop to a couple of guys who owned the cbooks domain, and they decided to have a book signing with Knuth for the newly reprinted TeX versions of TAOCP. I was lucky to be invited to a dinner before hand. The new owners reached out to shake Don's hand when one asked the question: "Are there any applications for Fibonacci numbers?" Which caused me to roll my eyes in the back of my head, and thinking "Oh, a few dozen", which was basically Don's answer. This is why one reads Vol. 2. Until DEK wrote vol. 2 this was a little researched area in math. TAOCP is more a reference to important algorithms which aren't purely numerical methods (excepting sorting and searching, saved for Vol. 3). If any single criticism for TAOCP stands out, it's that Don has chosen to stick with MIX (and MMIX) rather than higher level languages like Pascal (in his time) or C/C++, or Java, or what ever easier to program future language comes along. Don has his reasons to illustrate lower level machine function. Bear with him. Vol. 2 is an incredible reference, and you will be able to understand more the Fibonacci answer.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-12 00:00:00 Richard Vinal This was a much denser volume than the first volume. To say that it went over my head in many parts would be an understatement. It is interesting to see the points for where highly computationally intensive applications will have to be concerned. The first half is a good warning to consider before you try and do anything "random." It actually begins with simple tests that are very intuitive to determine how random a series is and builds up to some fairly comprehensive tests. Interestingly, the intro to the second half is just plain fun for a brief history of arithmetic. To the point that you will feel like such a "simple" discipline will seem almost alien. Very impressive. At any rate, I do plan on revisiting sections later. Not sure I will make a ton more progress, but you won't know till you try. And many of these topics are more reachable once you missed them the first twenty times. :)