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Donald Ervin Knuth

Born

in Milwaukee, The United States

January 10, 1938

Website

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

Genre

Science, Computers & Internet, Art

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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 definition language and rendering system, and the C ...more

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Average rating: 4.33 · 5,847 ratings · 289 reviews · 107 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms 4.38 avg rating — 1,884 ratings — published 1973 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set 4.50 avg rating — 768 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms 4.43 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 1969 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching 4.42 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 1973 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surreal Numbers 3.86 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set by Donald Ervin Knuth, Donald John Fuller (Series Editor) 4.74 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136) (Lecture Notes) 3.98 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Computers & Typesetting, Volume A: The TeXBook by Donald Ervin Knuth, Duane Bibby (Illustrator) 4.32 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated 4.31 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literate Programming (Lecture Notes) (Volume 27) 3.90 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Art of Computer Programming (15 books)
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Quotes by Donald Ervin Knuth (?)

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”
― Donald E. Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136)

tags: art, computer, science

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“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

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“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
― Donald Knuth, Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world

tags: algorithms, computer-science, engineering, technology

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