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Donald Knuth

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Also known as Donald E. Knuth, Don Knuth, Donald Ervin Knuth, D.E.K., DEK, Knuth

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

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Donald Knuth is an American male born on January 10, 1938. He has authored 114 works, including *Leaders in Computing*, *The Essential Knuth*, *Computers and Typesetting, Volume A*, *Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4B, Boxed Set*, and *Computers and Typesetting, Volume C*. Knuth has two children and maintains an Erdős number of 2.

He is recognized in the Royal Society, American Academy Arts Sciences, and Turing Award collections. His writings include the statement, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it," and the observation that science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer.

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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
Employer
California Institute of Technology
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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Donald Ervin Knuth
member of
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
date of birth
1938-01-10
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Erdős number
2
archives at
Computer History Museum
name in native language
Donald Ervin Knuth
medical condition
prostate cancer
ACM Classification Code (2012)
10011385
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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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