What I never liked much in books that should provide knowledge.

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That would rather depend upon whether Andrew Wiles had Dr Knuth as a professor, or had done the course which used TAOCP as a coursework. As I don't know either of these, I am unable to say. I think he stopped handing out cheques on a real bank, and so those cheques (if they still exist) are rare indeed.

And yes, I found some of the material in TAOCP difficult to understand, though this is more because I haven't been educated past the school system, I never went to university/college. I had more fun with the TeX manual.

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