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Donald Knuth Biography Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer

Donald brought a transition in the field of computers. He was the first to create the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems. He is rightly known as the Father of Analysis of Algorithms. An American mathematician, Donald Ervin Knuth is a Computer Scientist and a Professor at Stanford University. He is known for his book The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, MMIX, LR Parser, Literate Programming, and many more. Donald was an author and a scholar, too. Donald’s motto in life is to organize and summarize what is known about computer methods and to give it a mathematical and historical foundation. To show that the connection between computers and mathematics is far deeper and more intimate than these traditional relationships would imply. Knuth also has a Chinese name, Gao Dena, given in 1977 by Frances Yao just before his first visit to China. Knuth was very happy to get this name. He said that he had felt close to all the Chinese people though he cannot s