The TeXbook

Donald E. Knuth

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cpachFeb 27, 2022

I really enjoyed reading The TeXbook. I found it very approachable. Here’s a link for the curious: https://www.worldcat.org/title/texbook-describes-tex-version... (https://www.worldcat.org/title/texbook-describes-tex-version-30/oclc/826569026)

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arisbe__Feb 27, 2022

What initially turned me into a curious person were Surely You Are Joking Mr Feynman & Godel, Escher, Bach. Then Book of Proof & Forallx: an introduction to formal logic helped me develop an interest in mathematics. But what was really a kind of aesthetic crack was The UNIX Programming Environment and The TeXbook.

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