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Donald Knuth
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American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
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Donald Knuth was born in 1938. He has two children. His Erdős number is 2.
He is recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Turing Award collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection. His home page is titled "Don Knuth's Home Page."
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Don Knuth's Home Page
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ervin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Milwaukee
- Occupation
- type designer
- Position held
- professor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Notable work
- literate programming
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Marshall Hall
- Field of work
- analysis of algorithms
- Instrument
- organ
- Official website
- profiles.stanford.edu/donald-knuth
- Image
- Donald Ervin Knuth (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Stanford
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- date of birth
- 1938-01-10
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- Erdős number
- 2
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- Computer History Museum
- name in native language
- Donald Ervin Knuth
- medical condition
- prostate cancer
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011385
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Encyclopedic overview
Donald Ervin Knuth (/kəˈnuːθ/ kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".
Knuth is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process, he also popularized the 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.
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