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Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth
Donald Knuth.
Född10 januari 1938 (86 år)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
MakaNancy Jill Carter
Barn2
UtmärkelserGrace Murray Hopper Award (1971)
Turingpriset (1974)
National Medal of Science (1979)
Kyotopriset (1996)
Faraday-medaljen (2011)

Donald Ervin Knuth, Don Knuth, född 10 januari 1938 i Milwaukee, Wisconsin, är en amerikansk matematiker och datalog, professor emeritus i The Art of Computer Programming vid Stanford University.

Knuth är känd som upphovsmannen till typsättningsprogrammet TeX, fontbeskrivningsspråket Metafont, dokumentationssystemet WEB samt för sina många böcker inom framför allt matematik och datavetenskap, bland annat Concrete Mathematics samt den ännu ej avslutade serien The Art of Computer Programming.

Knuth utsågs till hedersdoktor vid KTH 1991.[1]

Asteroiden 21656 Knuth är uppkallad efter honom.[2]

Bibliografi (urval)

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  • Surreal Numbers: How two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness, (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1974), vi+119pp. ISBN 0-201-03812-9
  • Knuth, Donald Ervin (1968) (på engelska). The art of computer programming. Vol. 1, Fundamental algorithms. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. Libris 129538 
  • Knuth, Donald Ervin (1969) (på engelska). The art of computer programming. Vol.2, Seminumerical algorithms. Libris 4701699. ISBN 0-201-03802-1 
  • Knuth, Donald Ervin (1973) (på engelska). The art of computer programming. Vol. 3, Sorting and searching. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. Libris 342210. ISBN 0-201-03803-X 
  • Knuth, Donald Ervin (2004) (på engelska). The art of computer programming. Vol. 4, Combinatorial algorithms. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. Libris 9496049. ISBN 0-201-85392-2 
  • Knuth, Donald Ervin (2011) (på engelska). The art of computer programming, volumes 1–4a boxed set. Pearson Education (us). ISBN 978-0-321-75104-1 
  • Graham, Ronald; Donald Ervin Knuth; Oren Patashnik (1994) [1989]. Concrete Mathematics (2. ed.). Addison-Wesley. Libris 4705069. ISBN 0-201-55802-5 
  1. ^ KTH: Hedersdoktorer 1944-2008. Arkiverad 24 mars 2010 hämtat från the Wayback Machine. Läst 13 april 2009
  2. ^ ”Minor Planet Center 21656 Knuth” (på engelska). Minor Planet Center. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=21656. Läst 19 juli 2021. 

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