Donald Knuth Annual Christmas Lectures

by Stanford Online · 26 videos

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1d 10h 33m

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1.5×23h 1m 49s
1.75×19h 44m 25s
17h 16m 22s
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Longest1h 40m 19s
Shortest1h 2m 26s
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1 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - "Pi and The Art of Computer Programming" (2019) 1:02:26 2019-12-21
2 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"Dancing Links" (2018) 1:30:25 2018-12-12
3 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017) 1:07:02 2017-12-08
4 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"Hamiltonian Paths in Antiquity" (2016) 1:11:47 2017-01-20
5 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"Hamiltonian Paths in Antiquity" (2016) (360 Degrees) 1:11:47 2017-01-20
6 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"Universal Commafree Codes" (2015) 1:16:59 2015-12-11
7 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"(3/2)-ary Trees" (2014) 1:16:16 2014-12-04
8 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"Planar Graphs and Ternary Trees" (2013) 1:21:37 2013-12-12
9 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Trees and chordal graphs" (2012) 1:14:53 2012-12-18
10 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Bayesian trees and BDDs" (2011) 1:13:50 2011-12-09
11 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"Why Pi?"(2010) 1:39:33 2011-09-06
12 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Spanning Trees and Aspects" (2009) 1:24:57 2019-01-10
13 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth—"Fun With Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams (ZDDs)" (2008) 1:33:00 2019-01-10
14 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Sideways Heaps" (2007) 1:18:01 2019-01-10
15 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Trees, Rivers, and RNA" (2006) 1:24:01 2019-01-10
16 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Sand Piles and Spanning Trees" (2004) 1:40:19 2019-01-10
17 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Finding All Spanning Trees" (2003) 1:22:24 2019-01-10
18 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Chains of Subsets" (2002) 1:18:25 2019-01-10
19 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Trees, Forests, and Polyominoes" (2000) 1:25:14 2019-01-10
20 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Trees and Alphabetic Codes" (1998) 1:17:01 2019-01-10
21 Stanford Lecture: Donald Knuth - "Lattices of Trees, Part I" (1997) 1:15:07 2019-01-10
22 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"The Associative Law, or the Anatomy of Rotations in Binary Trees" 1:10:16 2019-01-10
23 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) LIVE STREAM 1:11:35 2022-12-12
24 Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) 1:08:50 2023-10-31
25 Stanford Lecture - Dancing Cells, Dr. Donald Knuth I 2023 1:32:47 2024-01-23
26 Stanford Lecture - Strong Components and Weak Components, Dr. Donald Knuth I 2024 1:24:12 2025-01-07

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