Knuth

Knuth (English: Donald Ervin Knuth, transliteration: Donald Ervin Knuth, January 10, 1938 -), born in Milwaukee, United States, is a famous computer scientist and mathematician, and an emeritus professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Professor Knuth is a pioneer of modern computer science who created the field of algorithm analysis and made cornerstone contributions to several branches of theoretical computer science. He has published many widely influential papers and books in the fields of computer science and mathematics. Winner of the Turing Award in 1974. "The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth is one of the highly respected reference books in the computer science community. He is also the inventor of the typesetting software TeX and the font design system Metafont. In addition, he also proposed the concept of literary programming and created WEB and CWEB software as literary programming development tools.