- Religion and science, Science, philosophy, Computers and civilization, Computers, moral and ethical aspects
In the fall of 1999, computer scientist Donald E. Knuth was invited to give six public lectures at MIT on the general subject of relations between faith and science. The lectures were broadcast live on the Internet and watched regularly by tens of thousands of people around the world, and they have remained popular many months after the event.
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Warm, spare, contemplative and earnest.
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- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Donald Knuth
- First published
- July 1, 2001
- Pages
- 263
- Publisher
- CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781575863269
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