1:11:40 “I felt a little guilty I had solved my PhD thesis in one hour…” 🤣 3:00:00 we're getting into the TeX conversation - never knew about the history, only that "knuth didn't like the look of the formatting" Didn't realize - 1978 - first commercial availability of laser printers, everything can be defined with splines; the door is now open to go hog wild on mathematical typography.
This interviewer is WONDERFUL
Wonderful interview
21:00: About combinatories. "A have a better intuition about discrete things than continuous."
Master yoda, incredible almost like hearing Einstein
1:11:40 “I felt a little guilty I had solved my PhD thesis in one hour…” 🤣
3:00:00 we're getting into the TeX conversation - never knew about the history, only that "knuth didn't like the look of the formatting" Didn't realize - 1978 - first commercial availability of laser printers, everything can be defined with splines; the door is now open to go hog wild on mathematical typography.
36:00: Readings source materials
Please do a history with Ken Thompson!!
Don't know if you still follow CHM, but they published an oral history with Ken Thompson about a year ago.
2:40:55 we should write our joint papers by mail .. (or by fe-mail)