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Try this guy then, he's got a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology from a thesis Finite Semifields and Projective Planes but he's written a bunch of stuff on algorithms and will write you a check for any errors you find in his work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth



Regardless of the name of his degree, dude is a real programmer.


Church organist actually - serious enough to have a two story pipe organ built into his own home.

Enough of the True Scotsman .. it's clear as day from the introduction and opening chapters of TAOCP that he approaches programming as a mathematician.




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