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| Born | Donald Ervin Knuth, January 10, 1938, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Education | Case Institute of Technology (B.S, M.S.), California Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Finite Semifields and Projective Planes (1963) |
| Doctoral students | Leonidas J. Guibas, Michael Fredman, Scott Kim, Vaughan Pratt, Robert Sedgewick, Jeffrey Vitter, Andrei Broder |
| Known for | The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, Knuth's up-arrow notation, Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm, Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm, MMIX, Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence, LR parser, Literate programming |
| Notable awards | SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution (1986), Grace Murray Hopper Award (1971), Turing Award (1974), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975), National Medal of Science (1979), John von Neumann Medal (1995), Harvey Prize (1995), Kyoto Prize (1996), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2003), Faraday Medal (2011), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010), Turing Lecture (2011) |
| Spouse | Nancy Jill Carter |
| Children | 2 |
About Donald Knuth
Mathematician Donald Knuth was born on January 10, 1938 in Wisconsin, United States (He's 86 years old now).
Professor Emeritus at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, was a mathematician and engineer best known for his work as a mathematician and engineer.
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Donald Knuth before becoming famous
Donald Knuth was born in the Zodiac sign Capricorn (The Sea-Goat), and 1938 is also the year of Tiger (兎) in the Chinese Zodiac.
He was a prodigy, winning a tournament in which he came up with 4,500 words from the phrase Ziegler's Giant Bar. Only half of that quantity had been developed by the competition's judges.
Achievement of Donald Knuth
In 1971, he was the first person to receive the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. In 1995, he was also awarded the Harvey Prize.
Donald Knuth's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is where he was born and reared.
Donald Knuth Collabed with
Teacher Henry Suzzallo was a professor emeritus at Stanford University where he studied.
Donald Knuth Income & Net worth
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