"By 1973, the first volume of the defining work of our craft, “The Art of Computer Programming” had been available in bookstores since 1968, and its first chapter literally consisted of a 100-something page long introduction to various mathematical concepts. Induction, logarithms, series, matrices, elementary number theory, permutations and factorials, Fibonacci numbers, are some of the subjects exposed in those beautifully typeset pages."
"So be it. Education should be far more than preparing employees to be crunched by a machine. It should raise our perspectives and make us dream of a better place for all; not just for a small minority of vocal billionaires. Or at least, a better kind of mathematical education should avoid future generations the dreadful feeling of yet another mandatory, dull, dry, early Monday-morning math class."
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