Noam Zeilberger

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I wrote a letter to Knuth asking about this, and he wrote back!
[Edited to add a link to the original letter I sent: https://noamz.org/misc/letter-to-knuth-11-feb-2026.pdf]

40 views I wrote a letter to Knuth asking about this, and he wrote back! [Edited to add a link to the original letter I sent: https://noamz.org/misc/letter-to-knuth-11-feb-2026.pdf]

Today I had the opportunity to give a talk at CT 2026 (https://ct2026.com/) about our paper with Bryce Clarke and Gabriel Scherer on "The free bifibration on a functor" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07314). Here are the slides:
https://noamz.org/talks/ct2026.2026.07.13.pdf
After so many years of giving talks somehow I still often have trouble with pacing, leading to either not saying everything I

20 views Today I had the opportunity to give a talk at CT 2026 (https://ct2026.com/) about our paper with Bryce Clarke and Gabriel Scherer on "The free bifibration on a functor" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07314). Here are the slides: https://noamz.org/talks/ct2026.2026.07.13.pdf After so many years of giving talks somehow I still often have trouble with pacing, leading to either not saying everything I

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Oct 2022

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🔥 Top post: I wrote a letter to Knuth asking about this, and he wrote back! · 40 likes + reposts

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🔥 Top post I wrote a letter to Knuth asking about this, and he wrote back! [Edited to add a link to the original letter I sent: https://noamz.org/misc/letter-to-knuth-11-feb-2026.pdf] ★ 40

Today I had the opportunity to give a talk at CT 2026 (https://ct2026.com/) about our paper with Bryce Clarke and Gabriel Scherer on "The free bifibration on a functor" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07314). Here are the slides: https://no… ★ 20 The arXiv's new "make everyone write in English to promote linguistic diversity" policy went into effect yesterday (https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/01/13/non-english-paper-submission-guidelines/), and they have now released a feedback survey: … ★ 27 I just checked and the original preface with these two paragraphs still appears in the second edition of Volume 1. On Knuth's TAOCP page [https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html] in the "Errata for Volume 1 (2nd ed.)" he men… ★ 3 Here is the opening of Ulam's article: > Although to many people the electronic computer has come to symbolize the importance of mathematics in the modern world, few professional mathematicians are closely acquainted with the machine. Some… ★ 11 Possibly the reason that neither paragraph is cited more often is that they were both eventually removed -- at least, they do not appear in the preface to the 3rd edition of Volume 1. I am not sure why, or whether they were still there in … ★ 7 > I wish to show that the connection between computers and mathematics is far deeper and more intimate than these traditional relationships would imply. The construction of a computer program from a set of basic instructions is very simila… ★ 19 While looking for some sources to help motivate the study of computer programming to very young undergraduate students, I ended up reading the preface to Volume 1 of Knuth's _The Art of Computer Programming_ -- in an electronic copy of the… ★ 39 RE: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCT_bot/115899102956428600 Another article uploaded to the arXiv (technically, being updated) in a non-English language, making me think about how this policy change will soon go into effect: https://blo… ★ 18 RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@slava/115822631093391345 I for one am eagerly looking forward to Volume 5 of The Art of Computer Programming, on "Lexical scanning" and "Parsing techniques". Hopefully Knuth will get around to finishing it in th… ★ 8 I just spent a fun few days in Glasgow, where I was in town for Malin Altenmüller's (https://maltenmuller.github.io/) successful viva at Strathclyde! I really enjoyed Malin's thesis work and it's always a pleasure to visit the @mspstrath. ★ 13

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 18 views per post.

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Computer science theorist and mathematician interested in the connections between things. Assistant professor in the LIX lab at Ecole Polytechnique.

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