The Art of Computer Programming
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books about algorithms by Donald Knuth
Key facts
- Author
- Donald Knuth
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Non-fiction , Monograph
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley
- Publication date
- 1968–present
- Publication place
- United States
- Media type
- Print ( Hardcover )
- Isbn
- 0-201-03801-3
- Library of congress classification span
- QA76.75
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- book series
- Author
- Donald Knuth
- Country of origin
- United States
- Main subject
- computer programming
- Official website
- cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
- Image
- ArtOfComputerProgramming.svg
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/taocp
- publication date
- 1969-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Umění programování
- Commons category
- The Art of Computer Programming
- number of parts of this work
- 5
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Encyclopedic overview
Volumes 1 to 4B
The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive multi-volume monograph (Volumes 1–7) written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms and their analysis. As of 2026 it consists of published volumes 1, 2, 3, 4A, and 4B, with more expected to be released in the future. The Volumes 1–5 are intended to represent the central core of computer programming for sequential machines; the subjects of Volumes 6 and 7 are important but more specialized.
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