<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Paul,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Knuth split volume 4 in half almost two decades ago. I have seen a Kinkos version of the Combinatorics & Boolean function volume, which I would assume would be the first of the two. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I saw Knuth at my last talk at the Computer History Museum. At the time, he told me that he read the Annals regularly. </div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">----------------------------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">David Alan Grier</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Associate Professor of International Science and Technology Policy</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Center for International Science and Technology Policy</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Elliott School of International Affairs</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">George Washington University</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="mailto:grier@gwu.edu">grier@gwu.edu</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Ceruzzi, Paul wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Amazon has listed volume "4A" of Knuth. I won't believe it until I get my hands on it. Volume Three (Sorting and Searching), was published in 1973. Does this strike anyone else besides me as strange? Knuth had a huge influence the history of computing--besides his contribution to computing. I use the past tense because I haven't seen Volume 4 yet.<br><br>I wrote a bit more on this in the IT History blog (ithistory.org/blog).<br><br>Paul E. Ceruzzi<br>Chair, Division of Space History<br>National Air & Space Museum<br>MRC 311; PO Box 37012<br>Washington, DC 20013-7012<br>202-633-2414 <br><<a href="http://www.nasm.si.edu/staffDetail.cfm?staffID=24">http://www.nasm.si.edu/staffDetail.cfm?staffID=24</a>> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/">http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members">http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>