The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms

Donald E. Knuth

born 1938 · American computer scientist and mathematician

• Kyoto Prize
• National Medal of Science
• Turing Award
• Professor at Caltech

Profession

Mathematician, Computer scientist, Professor

Worked at

Caltech, Stanford, Burroughs Corporation, Institute for Defense Analyses

Studied at

Caltech, Case Western Reserve University

Studied under

Marshall Hall

Prizes

Turing Award (1974), National Medal of Science (1979), Kyoto Prize (1996), Guggenheim Fellowship (1972), Leroy P. Steele Prize (1986), Franklin Medal (1988), Harvey Prize (1995), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010), Faraday Medal (2011), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2003), Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013), Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971), Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1975), Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1978), Fellow of the British Computer Society (1980), W. Wallace McDowell Award (1980), ACM Software System Award (1986), ACM Fellow (1994), IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1995), Computer History Museum Fellow (1998), Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009), Turing Talk (2011), John von Neumann Prize (2016)

Sends a $2.56 cheque to anyone who finds an error in his books.

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