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Donald Knuth

May 21, 2023

Donald Ervin Knuth (/kəˈnuːθ/[3] kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science.[4] Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".[5]

Donald Knuth
Knuth in 2011
Born
Donald Ervin Knuth

(1938-01-10) January 10, 1938 (age 85)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Education
Known for
SpouseNancy Jill Carter
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsStanford University,
University of Oslo
ThesisFinite Semifields and Projective Planes (1963)
Doctoral advisorMarshall Hall, Jr.[2]
Doctoral students
Websitecs.stanford.edu/~knuth

He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming and contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process, he also popularized the asymptotic notation. In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.

As a writer and scholar, Knuth created the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MIX/MMIX instruction set architectures. Knuth strongly opposes the granting of software patents, having expressed his opinion to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organisation.

Biography

Early life

Knuth was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Ervin Henry Knuth and Louise Marie Bohning.[6] He describes his heritage as "Midwestern Lutheran German".[7]: 66  His father owned a small printing business and taught bookkeeping.[8] Donald, a student at Milwaukee Lutheran High School, thought of ingenious ways to solve problems. For example, in eighth grade, he entered a contest to find the number of words that the letters in "Ziegler's Giant Bar" could be rearranged to create; the judges had identified 2,500 such words. With time gained away from school due to a pretend stomach ache, and working the problem the other way, Knuth used an unabridged dictionary and determined if each dictionary entry could be formed using the letters in the phrase. Using this algorithm, he identified over 4,500 words, winning the contest.[7]: 3  As prizes, the school received a new television and enough candy bars for all of his schoolmates to eat.[9]

Education

Knuth received a scholarship in physics to the Case Institute of Technology (now part of Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, Ohio, enrolling in 1956.[10] He also joined the Beta Nu Chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity. While studying physics at Case, Knuth was introduced to the IBM 650, an early commercial computer. After reading the computer's manual, Knuth decided to rewrite the assembly and compiler code for the machine used in his school, because he believed he could do it better.[11]

In 1958, Knuth created a program to help his school's basketball team win their games.[12] He assigned "values" to players in order to gauge their probability of getting points, a novel approach that Newsweek and CBS Evening News later reported on.[11]

Knuth was one of the founding editors of Case Institute's Engineering and Science Review, which won a national award as best technical magazine in 1959.[13][14] He then switched from physics to mathematics, and received two degrees from Case in 1960:[10] his bachelor of science degree, and simultaneously a master of science by a special award of the faculty, who considered his work exceptionally outstanding.[4][11]

In 1963, with mathematician Marshall Hall as his adviser,[2] he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology for a thesis entitled Finite Semifields and Projective Planes.[15]

Early work

After receiving his PhD, Knuth joined Caltech's faculty as an assistant professor.[16]

He accepted a commission to write a book on computer programming language compilers. While working on this project, Knuth decided that he could not adequately treat the topic without first developing a fundamental theory of computer programming, which became The Art of Computer Programming. He originally planned to publish this as a single book. As Knuth developed his outline for the book, he concluded that he required six volumes, and then seven, to thoroughly cover the subject. He published the first volume in 1968.[17]

Just before publishing the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming, Knuth left Caltech to accept employment with the Institute for Defense Analyses' Communications Research Division, then situated on the Princeton University campus, which was performing mathematical research in cryptography to support the National Security Agency.

In 1967, Knuth attended a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference and someone asked what he did. At the time, computer science was partitioned into numerical analysis, artificial intelligence and programming languages. Based on his study and The Art of Computer Programming book, Knuth decided the next time someone asked he would say, "Analysis of algorithms."[18]

Knuth then left his position to join the Stanford University faculty in 1969,[19] where he is now Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus.[20][21]

Writings

Knuth is a writer, as well as a computer scientist.[16]

The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP)

Main article: The Art of Computer Programming

"The best way to communicate from one human being to another is through story."

— Donald Knuth[18]

In the 1970s, Knuth described computer science as "a totally new field with no real identity. And the standard of available publications was not that high. A lot of the papers coming out were quite simply wrong. ... So one of my motivations was to put straight a story that had been very badly told."[22]

From 1972 to 1973, Knuth spent a year at the University of Oslo among people such as Ole-Johan Dahl. This is where he had originally intended to write the seventh volume in his book series, a volume that was to deal with programming languages. However, Knuth had only finished the first two volumes when he came to Oslo, and thus spent the year on the third volume, next to teaching. The third volume in the series came out just after Knuth returned to Stanford in 1973.[23]

By 2011, Volume 4A had been published.[17] Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science 2nd ed., which originated with an expansion of the mathematical preliminaries section of Volume 1 of TAoCP, has also been published. In April 2020, Knuth said he anticipates that Volume 4 will have at least parts A through F.[18] Volume 4B was published in October 2022.

Other works

Knuth is also the author of Surreal Numbers,[24] a mathematical novelette on John Conway's set theory construction of an alternate system of numbers. Instead of simply explaining the subject, the book seeks to show the development of the mathematics. Knuth wanted the book to prepare students for doing original, creative research.

In 1995, Knuth wrote the foreword to the book A=B by Marko Petkovšek, Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger.[25] Knuth is also an occasional contributor of language puzzles to Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.[26]

Knuth has also delved into recreational mathematics. He contributed articles to the Journal of Recreational Mathematics beginning in the 1960s, and was acknowledged as a major contributor in Joseph Madachy's Mathematics on Vacation.[27]

Knuth has also appeared in a number of Numberphile[28] and Computerphile videos on YouTube where he has discussed topics from writing Surreal Numbers[29] to why he does not use email.[30]

Works regarding his religious beliefs

In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran,[31] is also the author of 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated,[32] in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book. Each verse is accompanied by a rendering in calligraphic art, contributed by a group of calligraphers under the leadership of Hermann Zapf. Subsequently, he was invited to give a set of lectures at MIT on his views on religion and computer science behind his 3:16 project, resulting in another book, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, where he published the lectures "God and Computer Science".

Opinion on software patents

Knuth is strongly opposed to the policy of granting software patents for trivial solutions that should be obvious, but has expressed more nuanced views for nontrivial solutions such as the interior-point method of linear programming.[33] He has expressed his disagreement directly to both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organisation.[34]

Computer Musings

Knuth gives informal lectures a few times a year at Stanford University, which he titled "Computer Musings". He was a visiting professor at the Oxford University Department of Computer Science in the United Kingdom until 2017 and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College.[35][36]

Programming

Digital typesetting

In the 1970s the publishers of TAOCP abandoned Monotype in favor of phototypesetting. Knuth became so frustrated with the inability of the latter system to approach the quality of the previous volumes, which were typeset using the older system, that he took time out to work on digital typesetting and created TeX and Metafont.[37]

Literate programming

While developing TeX, Knuth created a new methodology of programming, which he called literate programming, because he believed that programmers should think of programs as works of literature. "Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."[38]

Knuth embodied the idea of literate programming in the WEB system. The same WEB source is used to weave a TeX file, and to tangle a Pascal source file. These in their turn produce a readable description of the program and an executable binary respectively. A later iteration of the system, CWEB, replaces Pascal with C.

Knuth used WEB to program TeX and METAFONT, and published both programs as books: TeX: The Program, which was originally published in 1986, and METAFONT: The Program, which was originally published in 1986.[39] Around the same time, LaTeX, the now-widely adopted macro package based on TeX, was first developed by Leslie Lamport, who later published its first user manual in 1986.

Music

Knuth is an organist and a composer. Both Knuth and his father served as organists for Lutheran congregations. Don Knuth and his wife own a sixteen-rank organ in their home.[40] In 2016 he completed a musical piece for organ titled Fantasia Apocalyptica, which he describes as "translation of the Greek text of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine into music". It was premièred in Sweden on January 10, 2018.[41]

Personal life

Donald Knuth married Nancy Jill Carter on 24 June 1961, while he was a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology. They have two children: John Martin Knuth and Jennifer Sierra Knuth.[42]

Chinese name

Knuth's Chinese name is Gao Dena (simplified Chinese: 高德纳; traditional Chinese: 高德納; pinyin: Gāo Dénà).[43][3] In 1977, he was given this name by Frances Yao, shortly before making a 3-week trip to China.[3][44] In the 1980 Chinese translation of Volume 1 of The Art of Computer Programming (simplified Chinese: 计算机程序设计艺术; traditional Chinese: 計算機程式設計藝術; pinyin: Jìsuànjī chéngxù shèjì yìshù), Knuth explains that he embraced his Chinese name because he wanted to be known by the growing numbers of computer programmers in China at the time. In 1989, his Chinese name was placed atop the Journal of Computer Science and Technology's header, which Knuth says "makes me feel close to all Chinese people although I cannot speak your language".[44]

Health concerns

In 2006, Knuth was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He underwent surgery in December that year and stated, "a little bit of radiation therapy ... as a precaution but the prognosis looks pretty good", as he reported in his video autobiography.[45]

Humor

Knuth used to pay a finder's fee of $2.56 for any typographical errors or mistakes discovered in his books, because "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar", and $0.32 for "valuable suggestions". According to an article in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review, these Knuth reward checks are "among computerdom's most prized trophies". Knuth had to stop sending real checks in 2008 due to bank fraud, and instead now gives each error finder a "certificate of deposit" from a publicly listed balance in his fictitious "Bank of San Serriffe".[46]

He once warned a correspondent, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."[3]

Knuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures". In it, he defined the fundamental unit of length as the thickness of Mad No. 26, and named the fundamental unit of force "whatmeworry". Mad published the article in issue No. 33 (June 1957).[47][48]

To demonstrate the concept of recursion, Knuth intentionally referred "Circular definition" and "Definition, circular" to each other in the index of The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1.

The preface of Concrete Mathematics has the following paragraph:

When DEK taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft. He announced that, contrary to the expectations of his colleagues, he was not going to teach the Theory of Aggregates, nor Stone's Embedding Theorem, nor even the Stone–Čech compactification. (Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room.)

At the TUG 2010 Conference, Knuth announced a satirical XML-based successor to TeX, titled "iTeX" (pronounced [iː˨˩˦tɛks˧˥], performed with a bell ringing), which would support features such as arbitrarily scaled irrational units, 3D printing, input from seismographs and heart monitors, animation, and stereophonic sound.[49][50][51]

Awards and honors

In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award.[4] He has received various other awards including the Turing Award, the National Medal of Science, the John von Neumann Medal, and the Kyoto Prize.[4]

Knuth was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS) in 1980 in recognition of Knuth's contributions to the field of computer science.[52]

In 1990 he was awarded the one-of-a-kind academic title of Professor of The Art of Computer Programming, which has since been revised to Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming.

Knuth was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1981 for organizing vast subject areas of computer science so that they are accessible to all segments of the computing community. In 1992, he became an associate of the French Academy of Sciences. Also that year, he retired from regular research and teaching at Stanford University in order to finish The Art of Computer Programming. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2003.[1]

Knuth was elected as a Fellow (first class of Fellows) of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009 for his outstanding contributions to mathematics.[53] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[54] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[55] and a member of the American Philosophical Society.[56] Other awards and honors include:

Publications

A short list of his publications include:[71]

The Art of Computer Programming:

  1. ——— (1997). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd ed.). Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0-201-89683-1.
  2. ——— (1997). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 2: Seminumerical Algorithms (3rd ed.). Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0-201-89684-8.
  3. ——— (1998). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0-201-89685-5.
  4. ——— (2011). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0-201-03804-0.
  5. ——— (2022). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4B: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 2. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0-201-03806-4.
  6. ——— (2005). MMIX—A RISC Computer for the New Millennium. Vol. 1, Fascicle 1. ISBN 978-0-201-85392-6.
  7. ——— (2008). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4, Fascicle 0: Introduction to Combinatorial Algorithms and Boolean Functions. ISBN 978-0-321-53496-5.
  8. ——— (2009). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4, Fascicle 1: Bitwise Tricks & Techniques, Binary Decision Diagrams. ISBN 978-0-321-58050-4.
  9. ——— (2005). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4, Fascicle 2: Generating All Tuples and Permutations. ISBN 978-0-201-85393-3.
  10. ——— (2005). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4, Fascicle 3: Generating All Combinations and Partitions. ISBN 978-0-201-85394-0.
  11. ——— (2006). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4, Fascicle 4: Generating All Trees—History of Combinatorial Generation. ISBN 978-0-321-33570-8.
  12. ——— (2018). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4, Fascicle 5: Mathematical Preliminaries Redux, Backtracking, Dancing Links. ISBN 978-0-134-67179-6.
  13. ——— (2015). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 4, Fascicle 6: Satisfiability. ISBN 978-0-134-39760-3.

Computers and Typesetting (all books are hardcover unless otherwise noted):

  1. ——— (1984). Computers & Typesetting. Vol. A, The TeXbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-13447-6., x+483pp.
  2. ——— (1984). Computers & Typesetting. Vol. A, The TeXbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-13448-3. (softcover).
  3. ——— (1986). Computers & Typesetting. Vol. B, TeX: The Program. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-13437-7., xviii+600pp.
  4. ——— (1986). Computers & Typesetting. Vol. C, The METAFONTbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-13445-2., xii+361pp.
  5. ——— (1986). Computers & Typesetting. Vol. C, The METAFONTbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-13444-5. (softcover).
  6. ——— (1986). Computers & Typesetting. Vol. D, METAFONT: The Program. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-13438-4., xviii+566pp.
  7. ——— (1986). Computers & Typesetting. Vol. E, Computer Modern Typefaces. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-13446-9., xvi+588pp.
  8. ——— (2000). Computers & Typesetting. Vol. A-E Boxed Set. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-73416-4.

Books of collected papers:

  1. ——— (1992). Literate Programming. Lecture Notes. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI. ISBN 978-0-937073-80-3.[72]
  2. ——— (1996). Selected Papers on Computer Science. Lecture Notes. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI. ISBN 978-1-881526-91-9.[73]
  3. ——— (1999). Digital Typography. Lecture Notes. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI. ISBN 978-1-57586-010-7.[74]
  4. ——— (2000). Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms. Lecture Notes. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI. ISBN 978-1-57586-212-5.[75]
  5. ——— (2003). Selected Papers on Computer Languages. Lecture Notes. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI. ISBN 978-1-57586-381-8., ISBN 1-57586-382-0 (paperback)[76]
  6. ——— (2003). Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics. Lecture Notes. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI. ISBN 978-1-57586-249-1., ISBN 1-57586-248-4 (paperback)[77]
  7. Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 191), 2010. ISBN 1-57586-583-1 (cloth), ISBN 1-57586-582-3 (paperback)[78]
  8. Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Fun and Games (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 192), 2011. ISBN 978-1-57586-585-0 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57586-584-3 (paperback)[79]
  9. Donald E. Knuth, Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 202), 2011. ISBN 978-1-57586-635-2 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57586-634-5 (paperback)[80]

Other books:

  1. Graham, Ronald L; Knuth, Donald E.; Patashnik, Oren (1994). Concrete mathematics: A foundation for computer science (Second ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-55802-9. MR 1397498. xiv+657 pp.
  2. Knuth, Donald Ervin (1974). Surreal numbers: how two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness: a mathematical novelette. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-03812-5.[24]
  3. Donald E. Knuth, The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for Combinatorial Computing (New York, ACM Press) 1993. second paperback printing 2009. ISBN 0-321-60632-9
  4. Donald E. Knuth, 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated (Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions), 1990. ISBN 0-89579-252-4
  5. Donald E. Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI Lecture Notes no 136), 2001. ISBN 1-57586-326-X
  6. Donald E. Knuth, MMIXware: A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium (Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag— Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 1750), 1999. viii+550pp. ISBN 978-3-540-66938-8
  7. Donald E. Knuth and Silvio Levy, The CWEB System of Structured Documentation (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley), 1993. iv+227pp. ISBN 0-201-57569-8. Third printing 2001 with hypertext support, ii + 237 pp.
  8. Donald E. Knuth, Tracy L. Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts, Mathematical Writing (Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America), 1989. ii+115pp ISBN 978-0883850633
  9. Daniel H. Greene and Donald E. Knuth, Mathematics for the Analysis of Algorithms (Boston: Birkhäuser), 1990. viii+132pp. ISBN 978-0817647285
  10. Donald E. Knuth, Mariages Stables: et leurs relations avec d'autres problèmes combinatoires (Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal), 1976. 106pp. ISBN 978-0840503428
  11. Donald E. Knuth, Stable Marriage and Its Relation to Other Combinatorial Problems: An Introduction to the Mathematical Analysis of Algorithms. ISBN 978-0821806036
  12. Donald E. Knuth, Axioms and Hulls (Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag—Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 606), 1992. ix+109pp. ISBN 3-540-55611-7

See also

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donald, knuth, donald, ervin, knuth, nooth, born, january, 1938, american, computer, scientist, mathematician, professor, emeritus, stanford, university, 1974, recipient, turing, award, informally, considered, nobel, prize, computer, science, knuth, been, call. Donald Ervin Knuth k e ˈ n uː 8 3 ke NOOTH born January 10 1938 is an American computer scientist mathematician and professor emeritus at Stanford University He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science 4 Knuth has been called the father of the analysis of algorithms 5 Donald KnuthKnuth in 2011BornDonald Ervin Knuth 1938 01 10 January 10 1938 age 85 Milwaukee Wisconsin U S EducationCase Institute of Technology BS MS California Institute of Technology PhD Known forThe Art of Computer ProgrammingTeX METAFONT Computer ModernKnuth s up arrow notationKnuth Morris Pratt algorithmKnuth Bendix completion algorithmMMIXRobinson Schensted Knuth correspondenceLR parserLiterate programmingSpouseNancy Jill CarterChildren2AwardsSIGCSE 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 1 Faraday Medal 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2010 Turing Lecture 2011 Flajolet Lecture 2014 Scientific careerFieldsMathematicsComputer scienceInstitutionsStanford University University of OsloThesisFinite Semifields and Projective Planes 1963 Doctoral advisorMarshall Hall Jr 2 Doctoral studentsLeonidas J Guibas Michael Fredman Scott Kim Vaughan Pratt Robert Sedgewick Jeffrey Vitter Andrei Broder 2 Websitecs wbr stanford wbr edu wbr knuthHe is the author of the multi volume work The Art of Computer Programming and contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system and the Computer Modern family of typefaces As a writer and scholar Knuth created the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming and designed the MIX MMIX instruction set architectures Knuth strongly opposes the granting of software patents having expressed his opinion to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organisation Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life 1 2 Education 1 3 Early work 2 Writings 2 1 The Art of Computer Programming TAOCP 2 2 Other works 2 3 Works regarding his religious beliefs 2 4 Opinion on software patents 3 Computer Musings 4 Programming 4 1 Digital typesetting 4 2 Literate programming 5 Music 6 Personal life 6 1 Chinese name 6 2 Health concerns 6 3 Humor 7 Awards and honors 8 Publications 9 See also 10 References 11 Bibliography 12 External linksBiography EditEarly life Edit Knuth was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin to Ervin Henry Knuth and Louise Marie Bohning 6 He describes his heritage as Midwestern Lutheran German 7 66 His father owned a small printing business and taught bookkeeping 8 Donald a student at Milwaukee Lutheran High School thought of ingenious ways to solve problems For example in eighth grade he entered a contest to find the number of words that the letters in Ziegler s Giant Bar could be rearranged to create the judges had identified 2 500 such words With time gained away from school due to a pretend stomach ache and working the problem the other way Knuth used an unabridged dictionary and determined if each dictionary entry could be formed using the letters in the phrase Using this algorithm he identified over 4 500 words winning the contest 7 3 As prizes the school received a new television and enough candy bars for all of his schoolmates to eat 9 Education Edit Knuth received a scholarship in physics to the Case Institute of Technology now part of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio enrolling in 1956 10 He also joined the Beta Nu Chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity While studying physics at Case Knuth was introduced to the IBM 650 an early commercial computer After reading the computer s manual Knuth decided to rewrite the assembly and compiler code for the machine used in his school because he believed he could do it better 11 In 1958 Knuth created a program to help his school s basketball team win their games 12 He assigned values to players in order to gauge their probability of getting points a novel approach that Newsweek and CBS Evening News later reported on 11 Knuth was one of the founding editors of Case Institute s Engineering and Science Review which won a national award as best technical magazine in 1959 13 14 He then switched from physics to mathematics and received two degrees from Case in 1960 10 his bachelor of science degree and simultaneously a master of science by a special award of the faculty who considered his work exceptionally outstanding 4 11 In 1963 with mathematician Marshall Hall as his adviser 2 he earned a PhD in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology for a thesis entitled Finite Semifields and Projective Planes 15 Early work Edit After receiving his PhD Knuth joined Caltech s faculty as an assistant professor 16 He accepted a commission to write a book on computer programming language compilers While working on this project Knuth decided that he could not adequately treat the topic without first developing a fundamental theory of computer programming which became The Art of Computer Programming He originally planned to publish this as a single book As Knuth developed his outline for the book he concluded that he required six volumes and then seven to thoroughly cover the subject He published the first volume in 1968 17 Just before publishing the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming Knuth left Caltech to accept employment with the Institute for Defense Analyses Communications Research Division then situated on the Princeton University campus which was performing mathematical research in cryptography to support the National Security Agency In 1967 Knuth attended a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference and someone asked what he did At the time computer science was partitioned into numerical analysis artificial intelligence and programming languages Based on his study and The Art of Computer Programming book Knuth decided the next time someone asked he would say Analysis of algorithms 18 Knuth then left his position to join the Stanford University faculty in 1969 19 where he is now Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science Emeritus 20 21 Writings EditKnuth is a writer as well as a computer scientist 16 The Art of Computer Programming TAOCP Edit Main article The Art of Computer Programming The best way to communicate from one human being to another is through story Donald Knuth 18 In the 1970s Knuth described computer science as a totally new field with no real identity And the standard of available publications was not that high A lot of the papers coming out were quite simply wrong So one of my motivations was to put straight a story that had been very badly told 22 From 1972 to 1973 Knuth spent a year at the University of Oslo among people such as Ole Johan Dahl This is where he had originally intended to write the seventh volume in his book series a volume that was to deal with programming languages However Knuth had only finished the first two volumes when he came to Oslo and thus spent the year on the third volume next to teaching The third volume in the series came out just after Knuth returned to Stanford in 1973 23 By 2011 Volume 4A had been published 17 Concrete Mathematics A Foundation for Computer Science 2nd ed which originated with an expansion of the mathematical preliminaries section of Volume 1 of TAoCP has also been published In April 2020 Knuth said he anticipates that Volume 4 will have at least parts A through F 18 Volume 4B was published in October 2022 Other works Edit Knuth is also the author of Surreal Numbers 24 a mathematical novelette on John Conway s set theory construction of an alternate system of numbers Instead of simply explaining the subject the book seeks to show the development of the mathematics Knuth wanted the book to prepare students for doing original creative research In 1995 Knuth wrote the foreword to the book A B by Marko Petkovsek Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger 25 Knuth is also an occasional contributor of language puzzles to Word Ways The Journal of Recreational Linguistics 26 Knuth has also delved into recreational mathematics He contributed articles to the Journal of Recreational Mathematics beginning in the 1960s and was acknowledged as a major contributor in Joseph Madachy s Mathematics on Vacation 27 Knuth has also appeared in a number of Numberphile 28 and Computerphile videos on YouTube where he has discussed topics from writing Surreal Numbers 29 to why he does not use email 30 Works regarding his religious beliefs Edit In addition to his writings on computer science Knuth a Lutheran 31 is also the author of 3 16 Bible Texts Illuminated 32 in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling namely an analysis of chapter 3 verse 16 of each book Each verse is accompanied by a rendering in calligraphic art contributed by a group of calligraphers under the leadership of Hermann Zapf Subsequently he was invited to give a set of lectures at MIT on his views on religion and computer science behind his 3 16 project resulting in another book Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About where he published the lectures God and Computer Science Opinion on software patents Edit Knuth is strongly opposed to the policy of granting software patents for trivial solutions that should be obvious but has expressed more nuanced views for nontrivial solutions such as the interior point method of linear programming 33 He has expressed his disagreement directly to both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organisation 34 Computer Musings EditKnuth gives informal lectures a few times a year at Stanford University which he titled Computer Musings He was a visiting professor at the Oxford University Department of Computer Science in the United Kingdom until 2017 and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College 35 36 Programming EditDigital typesetting Edit In the 1970s the publishers of TAOCP abandoned Monotype in favor of phototypesetting Knuth became so frustrated with the inability of the latter system to approach the quality of the previous volumes which were typeset using the older system that he took time out to work on digital typesetting and created TeX and Metafont 37 Literate programming Edit While developing TeX Knuth created a new methodology of programming which he called literate programming because he believed that programmers should think of programs as works of literature Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do 38 Knuth embodied the idea of literate programming in the WEB system The same WEB source is used to weave a TeX file and to tangle a Pascal source file These in their turn produce a readable description of the program and an executable binary respectively A later iteration of the system CWEB replaces Pascal with C Knuth used WEB to program TeX and METAFONT and published both programs as books TeX The Program which was originally published in 1986 and METAFONT The Program which was originally published in 1986 39 Around the same time LaTeX the now widely adopted macro package based on TeX was first developed by Leslie Lamport who later published its first user manual in 1986 Music EditKnuth is an organist and a composer Both Knuth and his father served as organists for Lutheran congregations Don Knuth and his wife own a sixteen rank organ in their home 40 In 2016 he completed a musical piece for organ titled Fantasia Apocalyptica which he describes as translation of the Greek text of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine into music It was premiered in Sweden on January 10 2018 41 Personal life EditDonald Knuth married Nancy Jill Carter on 24 June 1961 while he was a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology They have two children John Martin Knuth and Jennifer Sierra Knuth 42 Chinese name Edit Knuth s Chinese name is Gao Dena simplified Chinese 高德纳 traditional Chinese 高德納 pinyin Gao Dena 43 3 In 1977 he was given this name by Frances Yao shortly before making a 3 week trip to China 3 44 In the 1980 Chinese translation of Volume 1 of The Art of Computer Programming simplified Chinese 计算机程序设计艺术 traditional Chinese 計算機程式設計藝術 pinyin Jisuanji chengxu sheji yishu Knuth explains that he embraced his Chinese name because he wanted to be known by the growing numbers of computer programmers in China at the time In 1989 his Chinese name was placed atop the Journal of Computer Science and Technology s header which Knuth says makes me feel close to all Chinese people although I cannot speak your language 44 Health concerns Edit In 2006 Knuth was diagnosed with prostate cancer He underwent surgery in December that year and stated a little bit of radiation therapy as a precaution but the prognosis looks pretty good as he reported in his video autobiography 45 Humor Edit One of Knuth s reward checks Knuth used to pay a finder s fee of 2 56 for any typographical errors or mistakes discovered in his books because 256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar and 0 32 for valuable suggestions According to an article in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology s Technology Review these Knuth reward checks are among computerdom s most prized trophies Knuth had to stop sending real checks in 2008 due to bank fraud and instead now gives each error finder a certificate of deposit from a publicly listed balance in his fictitious Bank of San Serriffe 46 He once warned a correspondent Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct not tried it 3 Knuth published his first scientific article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures In it he defined the fundamental unit of length as the thickness of Mad No 26 and named the fundamental unit of force whatmeworry Mad published the article in issue No 33 June 1957 47 48 To demonstrate the concept of recursion Knuth intentionally referred Circular definition and Definition circular to each other in the index of The Art of Computer Programming Volume 1 The preface of Concrete Mathematics has the following paragraph When DEK taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft He announced that contrary to the expectations of his colleagues he was not going to teach the Theory of Aggregates nor Stone s Embedding Theorem nor even the Stone Cech compactification Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room At the TUG 2010 Conference Knuth announced a satirical XML based successor to TeX titled iTeX pronounced iː tɛks performed with a bell ringing which would support features such as arbitrarily scaled irrational units 3D printing input from seismographs and heart monitors animation and stereophonic sound 49 50 51 Awards and honors EditIn 1971 Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award 4 He has received various other awards including the Turing Award the National Medal of Science the John von Neumann Medal and the Kyoto Prize 4 Knuth was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society DFBCS in 1980 in recognition of Knuth s contributions to the field of computer science 52 In 1990 he was awarded the one of a kind academic title of Professor of The Art of Computer Programming which has since been revised to Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming Knuth was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1981 for organizing vast subject areas of computer science so that they are accessible to all segments of the computing community In 1992 he became an associate of the French Academy of Sciences Also that year he retired from regular research and teaching at Stanford University in order to finish The Art of Computer Programming He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society ForMemRS in 2003 1 Knuth was elected as a Fellow first class of Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009 for his outstanding contributions to mathematics 53 He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 54 In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society 55 and a member of the American Philosophical Society 56 Other awards and honors include First ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award 1971 4 Turing Award 1974 4 Lester R Ford Award 1975 57 and 1993 58 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturer 1978 59 60 National Medal of Science 1979 61 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 1985 62 Franklin Medal 1988 4 John von Neumann Medal 1995 4 Harvey Prize from the Technion 1995 63 Kyoto Prize 1996 4 Fellow of the Computer History Museum for his fundamental early work in the history of computing algorithms development of the TeX typesetting language and for major contributions to mathematics and computer science 1998 64 Asteroid 21656 Knuth named in his honor in May 2001 65 66 Katayanagi Prize 2010 67 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Information and Communication Technologies 2010 68 Turing Lecture 2011 Stanford University School of Engineering Hero Award 2011 69 Flajolet Lecture Prize 2014 70 Publications EditA short list of his publications include 71 The Art of Computer Programming 1997 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 1 Fundamental Algorithms 3rd ed Addison Wesley Professional ISBN 978 0 201 89683 1 1997 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 2 Seminumerical Algorithms 3rd ed Addison Wesley Professional ISBN 978 0 201 89684 8 1998 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 3 Sorting and Searching 2nd ed Addison Wesley Professional ISBN 978 0 201 89685 5 2011 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4A Combinatorial Algorithms Part 1 Addison Wesley Professional ISBN 978 0 201 03804 0 2022 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4B Combinatorial Algorithms Part 2 Addison Wesley Professional ISBN 978 0 201 03806 4 2005 MMIX A RISC Computer for the New Millennium Vol 1 Fascicle 1 ISBN 978 0 201 85392 6 2008 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 Fascicle 0 Introduction to Combinatorial Algorithms and Boolean Functions ISBN 978 0 321 53496 5 2009 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 Fascicle 1 Bitwise Tricks amp Techniques Binary Decision Diagrams ISBN 978 0 321 58050 4 2005 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 Fascicle 2 Generating All Tuples and Permutations ISBN 978 0 201 85393 3 2005 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 Fascicle 3 Generating All Combinations and Partitions ISBN 978 0 201 85394 0 2006 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 Fascicle 4 Generating All Trees History of Combinatorial Generation ISBN 978 0 321 33570 8 2018 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 Fascicle 5 Mathematical Preliminaries Redux Backtracking Dancing Links ISBN 978 0 134 67179 6 2015 The Art of Computer Programming Vol 4 Fascicle 6 Satisfiability ISBN 978 0 134 39760 3 Computers and Typesetting all books are hardcover unless otherwise noted 1984 Computers amp Typesetting Vol A The TeXbook Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 13447 6 x 483pp 1984 Computers amp Typesetting Vol A The TeXbook Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 13448 3 softcover 1986 Computers amp Typesetting Vol B TeX The Program Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 13437 7 xviii 600pp 1986 Computers amp Typesetting Vol C The METAFONTbook Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 13445 2 xii 361pp 1986 Computers amp Typesetting Vol C The METAFONTbook Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 13444 5 softcover 1986 Computers amp Typesetting Vol D METAFONT The Program Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 13438 4 xviii 566pp 1986 Computers amp Typesetting Vol E Computer Modern Typefaces Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 13446 9 xvi 588pp 2000 Computers amp Typesetting Vol A E Boxed Set Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 73416 4 Books of collected papers 1992 Literate Programming Lecture Notes Stanford CA Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI ISBN 978 0 937073 80 3 72 1996 Selected Papers on Computer Science Lecture Notes Stanford CA Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI ISBN 978 1 881526 91 9 73 1999 Digital Typography Lecture Notes Stanford CA Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI ISBN 978 1 57586 010 7 74 2000 Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms Lecture Notes Stanford CA Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI ISBN 978 1 57586 212 5 75 2003 Selected Papers on Computer Languages Lecture Notes Stanford CA Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI ISBN 978 1 57586 381 8 ISBN 1 57586 382 0 paperback 76 2003 Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics Lecture Notes Stanford CA Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI ISBN 978 1 57586 249 1 ISBN 1 57586 248 4 paperback 77 Donald E Knuth Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms Stanford California Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI Lecture Notes no 191 2010 ISBN 1 57586 583 1 cloth ISBN 1 57586 582 3 paperback 78 Donald E Knuth Selected Papers on Fun and Games Stanford California Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI Lecture Notes no 192 2011 ISBN 978 1 57586 585 0 cloth ISBN 978 1 57586 584 3 paperback 79 Donald E Knuth Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth Stanford California Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI Lecture Notes no 202 2011 ISBN 978 1 57586 635 2 cloth ISBN 978 1 57586 634 5 paperback 80 Other books Graham Ronald L Knuth Donald E Patashnik Oren 1994 Concrete mathematics A foundation for computer science Second ed Reading MA Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 55802 9 MR 1397498 xiv 657 pp Knuth Donald Ervin 1974 Surreal numbers how two ex students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness a mathematical novelette Addison Wesley ISBN 978 0 201 03812 5 24 Donald E Knuth The Stanford GraphBase A Platform for Combinatorial Computing New York ACM Press 1993 second paperback printing 2009 ISBN 0 321 60632 9 Donald E Knuth 3 16 Bible Texts Illuminated Madison Wisconsin A R Editions 1990 ISBN 0 89579 252 4 Donald E Knuth Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About Center for the Study of Language and Information CSLI Lecture Notes no 136 2001 ISBN 1 57586 326 X Donald E Knuth MMIXware A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium Heidelberg Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science no 1750 1999 viii 550pp ISBN 978 3 540 66938 8 Donald E Knuth and Silvio Levy The CWEB System of Structured Documentation Reading Massachusetts Addison Wesley 1993 iv 227pp ISBN 0 201 57569 8 Third printing 2001 with hypertext support ii 237 pp Donald E Knuth Tracy L Larrabee and Paul M Roberts Mathematical Writing Washington D C Mathematical Association of America 1989 ii 115pp ISBN 978 0883850633 Daniel H Greene and Donald E Knuth Mathematics for the Analysis of Algorithms Boston Birkhauser 1990 viii 132pp ISBN 978 0817647285 Donald E Knuth Mariages Stables et leurs relations avec d autres problemes combinatoires Montreal Les Presses de l Universite de Montreal 1976 106pp ISBN 978 0840503428 Donald E Knuth Stable Marriage and Its Relation to Other Combinatorial Problems An Introduction to the Mathematical Analysis of Algorithms ISBN 978 0821806036 Donald E Knuth Axioms and Hulls Heidelberg Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science no 606 1992 ix 109pp ISBN 3 540 55611 7See also EditAsymptotic notation Attribute grammar CC system Dancing Links Knuth yllion Knuth Bendix completion algorithm Knuth Prize Knuth shuffle Knuth s Algorithm X Knuth s Simpath algorithm Knuth s up arrow notation Davis Knuth dragon Bender Knuth involution Trabb Pardo Knuth algorithm Fisher Yates shuffle Robinson Schensted Knuth correspondence Man or boy test Plactic monoid Quater imaginary base TeX Termial The Complexity of Songs Uniform binary search List of pioneers in computer science List of science and religion scholarsReferences Edit a b Professor Donald Knuth ForMemRS London Royal Society Archived from the original on November 17 2015 a b c Donald Knuth at the Mathematics Genealogy Project a b c d Knuth Donald Ervin Frequently Asked Questions Home page Stanford University Archived from the original on August 3 2019 Retrieved November 2 2010 a b c d e 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Letter a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint postscript link to the patent offices in the USA and Europe Professor Donald Knuth Magdalen College Archived from the original on January 4 2011 Retrieved December 6 2010 Notices Oxford University Gazette October 30 2014 Archived from the original on May 15 2015 Retrieved May 21 2015 Knuth Donald Erwin 1997 Digital Typography Kyoto Prize Lecture 1996 PDF Archived from the original PDF on January 27 2018 Knuth Donald Erwin 1984 Literate Programming PDF Archived from the original PDF on August 19 2019 Retrieved March 26 2020 Knuth Computers and Typesetting www cs faculty stanford edu Archived from the original on April 11 2019 Retrieved July 19 2019 The Organ of Don and Jill Knuth Retrieved January 11 2023 via Stanford edu de Groot Martin November 3 2018 Arts and Culture A polymath brings his genius to bear on a multimedia work for pipe organ Waterloo Region Record O Connor J J Robertson E F 2015 Donald Ervin Knuth University of St Andrews Archived from the original on October 5 2017 Retrieved October 20 2017 Reutenauer Arthur A brief history of TeX volume II TUGboat 68 72 ISSN 0896 3207 a b Knuth Donald Ervin 1980 计算机程序设计技巧 Ji suan ji cheng xu she ji ji qiao The Art of Computer Programming Translated by Guan JiWen Su Yunlin Beijing Defense Industry Publishing Co I fondly hope that many Chinese computer programmers will learn to recognize my Chinese name Gao Dena which was given to me by Francis Yao just before I visited your country in 1977 I still have very fond memories of that three week visit and I have been glad to see Gao Dena on the masthead of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology since 1989 This name makes me feel close to all Chinese people although I cannot speak your language Donald Knuth 85 Coping with cancer Web of Stories April 2006 Retrieved February 4 2021 Rewriting the Bible in 0s and 1s Technology Review Archived from the original on July 9 2022 Knuth Donald Ervin June 1957 The Potrzebie System of Weights amp Measures Mad Magazine No 33 Archived from the original on November 6 2018 Retrieved March 26 2020 Kidder Tracy 2016 A Truck Full of Money Random House p 68 ISBN 9780812995244 Knuth Don 2010 TUG Zeeba TV Archived from the original on March 25 2016 Retrieved March 26 2020 conference a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint postscript link Knuth Donald Ervin An Earth shaking announcement Zeeba TVvideo recording a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint postscript link Knuth Donald Ervin 2010 An Earthshaking Announcement PDF TUGboat 31 2 121 24 ISSN 0896 3207 Archived PDF from the original on April 13 2019 Retrieved March 26 2020 Anon 2016 Roll of Distinguished Fellows British Computer Society Archived from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved September 10 2014 Fellows Siam 2009 Archived from the original on April 21 2019 Retrieved March 26 2020 Gruppe 1 Matematiske fag in Norwegian Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Archived from the original on November 10 2013 Retrieved October 7 2010 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Retrieved December 14 2022 APS Member History search amphilsoc org Retrieved March 19 2021 Knuth D E 1974 Computer science and its relation to mathematics Amer Math Monthly 81 4 323 343 doi 10 2307 2318994 JSTOR 2318994 Archived from the original on February 20 2019 Retrieved March 26 2020 Knuth D E 1992 Two notes on notation Amer Math Monthly 99 5 403 422 arXiv math 9205211 Bibcode 1992math 5211K doi 10 2307 2325085 JSTOR 2325085 S2CID 119584305 Archived from the original on February 20 2019 Retrieved March 26 2020 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectures American Mathematical Society Archived from the original on October 7 2016 Retrieved October 15 2016 Knuth Donald E 1979 Mathematical typography PDF Bull Amer Math Soc N S 1 2 337 372 doi 10 1090 s0273 0979 1979 14598 1 MR 0520078 Archived PDF from the original 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