Changes:
- add: *Combinatorial Analysis and Computers* (1965) to
`combinatory_logic/README.md` list
- add: year to the other paper in the README
- fix: tweak format of papers README for readability
Decisions:
- I put this in the `combinatory_logic` folder, but I think it would
also fit in the `comp_sci_fundamentals_and_history` folder (given
Knuth's historical importance to the field and the more
theoretical nature of the paper). This seemed more direct.
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Paper Title: Combinatorial Analysis and Computers
Author(s): Marshall Hall Jr. and Donald E. Knuth
Paper Year: 1965
Reasons for Including Paper:
Papers We Love DC/NoVA will be discussing this paper (and others) at our
November meetup.
This paper is included in Donald Knuth's book *Selected Papers
on Discrete Mathematics*. Knuth's writings have been extremely
important to the field of computer science, and I think that most of
his papers would fit in well here. This one introduces computational
complexity and the benefits/limits of computing, then it dives into
several combinatorial problems.
I find it interesting because 1) it's a neat view of the possibilities and
limitations of computation early on, and 2) the problems that he lays out
are interesting exercises even today.
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Sean Broderick
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