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Donald Knuth (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's biography of Donald Knuth, the American computer scientist known for The Art of Computer Programming and for his rigorous mathematical treatment of algorithm analysis, including fixing the standard meaning of Big O and its companion asymptotic notations.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for uncontested biographical facts, cross-checked during research against the publication year of The Art of Computer Programming's first volume and against the independently verified citation for his 1976 asymptotic notation note. Sources
Donald Knuth (Wikipedia)
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