Donald Knuth

Explicit recommendation in his own reading list; no preferred edition or fixed endorsement date.

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Donald Knuth / Stanford University · undated · accessed 2026-10-01

Article · Own reading list

The current page explicitly introduces its list as recommendations. The updated list has no verified endorsement date; retirement year is not used as the recommendation date.

Explicit recommendation in his own reading list; no preferred edition or fixed endorsement date.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Donald Knuth / Stanford University · undated · accessed 2026-10-01

Article · Own reading list

The current page explicitly introduces its list as recommendations. The updated list has no verified endorsement date; retirement year is not used as the recommendation date.

Knuth selects McGee’s book for its connection between kitchen practice and biochemistry. The retirement page is one list event shared with Hackers and The Man Who Knew Infinity; no edition or recommendation date is inferred.

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Donald Knuth / Stanford · undated · accessed 2026-10-02

Article · Original written source

Knuth selects McGee’s book for its connection between kitchen practice and biochemistry. The retirement page is one list event shared with Hackers and The Man Who Knew Infinity; no edition or recommendation date is inferred.

Substantive reading context in a signed foreword contributed to this book; kept as mentioned rather than an independent recommendation.

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Marko Petkovšek, Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger · 1995-05-20 · accessed 2026-10-01

Book · Contributed technical foreword

Foreword signed May 20, 1995. The book was published in 1996; the author-hosted PDF is dated April 27, 1997. Knuth is the foreword contributor, not a coauthor.