Donald Knuth

Author of The Art of Computer Programming, the field's great treatise, and creator of the TeX typesetting system.

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born 1938

Core Principles & Analysis

• The first volume of TAOCP appeared in 1968; the work continues.
• He popularized Big-O notation for algorithm analysis.
• He suspended TAOCP work for a decade to build TeX because the proofs looked wrong.