And probably 99.9% of all scientific books and papers worldwide are published with the use of a PC. Does that makes Bill Gates more influential? I don't think that's the sense that is meant here. There are plenty of other ways to write papers. I doubt if the lack of TeX would have mattered significantly. On the other hand, Knuth is definitely widely influential for The Art of Computer Programming. But nowhere near as influential as Gardner, IMHO. --ms ed pegg wrote:
Something like 90% of all scientific books and papers worldwide are written in TeX.
That would make Donald Knuth somewhat influential.
Ed Pegg Jr.
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