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Parallel Algortihms and Architectures was translated into French and German, and the Chinese-language version of his textbook with Lehman and Meyer, Mathematics for Computer Science, has sold well over 100,000 copies. His lectures on math for computer science have been viewed more than five million times on YouTube.
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