I am not a believer, but pray that whichever $DEITY is watching over Donald Knuth allows him a healthy and long life to reach the achievement of finishing volume 7.
The way I see it: Volume 7 is compilation. Since many optimization techniques are NP-complete, Knuth will have to take a break from writing TAOCP to settle whether or not P=NP.
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I am not a believer, but pray that whichever $DEITY is watching over Donald Knuth allows him a healthy and long life to reach the achievement of finishing volume 7.
He's a Christian (he's also written about that), but considering the time volume 4 took (and is still taking), I have my doubts he's going to make it.
I think there's a proof that he can at best asymptotically approach volume 7.
but what distraction could it be now? There seems to be nothing to be done for TeX
The way I see it: Volume 7 is compilation. Since many optimization techniques are NP-complete, Knuth will have to take a break from writing TAOCP to settle whether or not P=NP.
Three months, tops.
What he needs to do is start sketching the rest so that it can be finished after his death in his vision.
There’s no second Don Knuth vOv
Brandon Sanderson maybe?
Damn funny comment.
If the end product is something like La Sagrada Familia, I'll pass.