Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A-E Boxed Set

by Donald Ervin Knuth

Suitable for those whose work requires generating formatted text. This text is also useful for developing the skills needed for writing your own successful programs.

Genres: Computers, Classics

362 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

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 Computer Modern family of typefaces.

A prolific writer and scholar, Knuth created the WEB/CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MMIX instruction set architecture.

Reviews

[Enrico · Rating 5 out of 5]

A masterpiece of art, typography and computer science.