Analysis of Algorithms by Knuth Kneth

After receiving his phd. Knuth began working on a chapter on sorting, a topic related to some pilers. He read many technical articles and noticed the spotty and sometimes unreliable nature of the literature in the then new field of computer science. The book grew longer as he wrote. It reach three thousand hand written pages,. by the time he finished the first draft of the 12 chapters in june 19 65.