Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017)
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中文导读
Donald Knuth 在斯坦福 2017 年圣诞树讲座中探讨了一个组合几何谜题，其计算结果竟与某个惊人优美的数学公式完美契合。他娓娓道来猜想的起源、推演历程与未完的续篇。
为什么 HN 推它
HN 拥趸极度推崇的讲座，老爷子幽默风趣，将艰深的数学难题讲得引人入胜；涉及的 Dancing Links 与矩形剖分计数细节至今常被引用。
「无论是听 Knuth 的演讲还是读他的著作，过程永远都是一种享受。」HN 网友原话：it's always a pleasure for me to see Knuth's talks or read his work
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Donald Knuth's 2017 Christmas Tree Lecture at Stanford about a combinatorial geometry problem whose computed numbers matched a striking formula. He tells the story of the conjecture and its sequel.
HN fans love it for Knuth's humor and for how he makes open math problems feel approachable, and it is often cited for details like dancing links and counting rectangle subdivisions.
HN 上的提及
it's always a pleasure for me to see Knuth's talks or read his work
Knuth even talks about dancing links in his new 2017 Christmas Tree Lecture
tight paving/tiles" problem from Knuth's Christmas Lecture
see 16:05 of Knuth's 2017 Christmas lecture
a lot of the audience did seem to follow along and enjoyed it.