Donald E. Knuth

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born

January 10, 1938

gender

male

place of birth

Milwaukee, The United States

website

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

genre

Science, Computers & Internet

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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 defini...more

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avg rating: 4.38 | 293 ratings | 46 reviews | 41 distinct works | 5 fans

	The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 4.54 — 59 ratings — published 1998	my rating:
	Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd Edition) by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 4.34 — 44 ratings — published 1973 2 editions	my rating:
	Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms (3rd Edition) by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 4.50 — 26 ratings — published 1981 2 editions	my rating:
	Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 4.00 — 29 ratings — published 2001 2 editions	my rating:
	Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd Edition) by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 4.52 — 23 ratings — published 1973 2 editions	my rating:
	3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 4.18 — 17 ratings — published 1991	my rating:
	Computers & Typesetting, Volume A: The TeXbook (Computers & Typesetting Series) by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 4.55 — 11 ratings — published 1984 2 editions	my rating:
	Surreal Numbers by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 3.50 — 12 ratings — published 1974	my rating:
	The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 3: Generating All Combinations and Partitions by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2005	my rating:
	The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 0: Introduction to Combinatorial Algorithms and Boolean Functions by Donald E. Knuth avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2008	my rating: