Donald E. Knuth

Author profile

born

January 10, 1938 in Milwaukee, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/

genre

Science, Computers & Internet

About this author

edit data

Donald Ervin Knuth, born January 10th 1938, is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.

Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming ("TAOCP"), Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms, contributing to the development of, and systematizing formal mathematical techniques for, the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms, and in the process popularizing asymptotic notation.

In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the...more

combine editions
Books by Donald E. Knuth

Average rating: 4.32 · 1,144 ratings · 94 reviews · 55 distinct works

	Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms 4.32 avg rating — 238 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Art of Computer Programming, The, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set 4.59 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms 4.42 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1969 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching 4.45 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Computers & Typesetting, Volume A: The Texbook 4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Surreal Numbers 3.51 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1974	My rating:
	3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated by Donald E. Knuth, Hermann Zapf (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Literate Programming 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 3: Generating All Combinations and Partitions 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

More books by Donald E. Knuth…

Series by Donald E. Knuth

Art of Computer Programming (15 books)
by Donald E. Knuth

4.45 avg rating — 724 ratings

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Donald E. Knuth

“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
― Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science

tags: computer-science , programming

7 people liked it

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Donald to Goodreads.