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Donald Knuth

b. 1938

1 series 2 books in order

Donald Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award and has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms". Our catalog credits him with Literate Programming and Selected Papers on Computer Science, both in the CSLI Lecture Notes series. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

Born
1938
Known for
CSLI Lecture Notes

Series by Donald Knuth

CSLI Lecture Notes

2 books in order · 1992–1996

  1. Cover of Literate programming

    Literate programming

    1992 · Donald Knuth

    Literate programming is a 1992 book by Donald Knuth. It is book 27 of the series CSLI Lecture Notes. Catalog genres: Science & Nature. The listed…

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  2. Cover of Selected Papers on Computer Science

    Selected Papers on Computer Science

    1996 · Donald Knuth

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How many books has Donald Knuth written?

We list 2 books by Donald Knuth across 1 series, published between 1992–1996 — each shown in full reading order.

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