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Call Number: SC0097
Creator:
Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-
Title: Donald E. Knuth papers
Dates: 1962-2010
Physical Description:
34.75 Linear feet
Summary: Papers reflect his work in the study and teaching of computer programming, computer systems for publishing, and mathematics.
Included are correspondence, notes, manuscripts, computer printouts, logbooks, proofs, and galleys pertaining to the computer
systems TeX, METAFONT, and Computer Modern; and to his books THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, COMPUTERS & TYPESETTING, CONCRETE
MATHEMATICS, THE STANFORD GRAPHBASE, DIGITAL TYPOGRAPHY, SELECTED PAPERS ON ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS, MMIXWARE : A RISC COMPUTER
FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, and THINGS A COMPUTER SCIENTIST RARELY TALKS ABOUT.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Donald Knuth, 1972, 1980, 1983, 1989, 1996, 1998, and 2001.
This collection is open for research.
Literary rights reside with Donald Knuth.
Donald E. Knuth Papers (SC0097). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of computer science at Stanford University, Donald Ervin Knuth was born in 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received
a B.S. from Case Institute of Technology in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1963. A member
of Stanford's Computer Science Department since 1968, Knuth has won numerous awards for his work, including the National Medal
of Science for his series of volumes,
THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Papers reflect his work in the study and teaching of computer programming, computer systems for publishing, and mathematics.
Included are correspondence, notes, manuscripts, computer printouts, logbooks, proofs, and galleys pertaining to the computer
systems TeX, METAFONT, and Computer Modern; and to his books
THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING,
COMPUTERS & TYPESETTING,
CONCRETE MATHEMATICS,
THE STANFORD GRAPHBASE,
DIGITAL TYPOGRAPHY,
SELECTED PAPERS ON ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS,
MMIXWARE : A RISC COMPUTER FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, and
THINGS A COMPUTER SCIENTIST RARELY TALKS ABOUT.
The materials are arranged in three series and subsequent accessions: Series 1. The Art of Computer Programming; Series 2.
Computers and Typesetting; Series 3. Concrete Mathematics.
Howe, Marion, ed.
Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-
Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-
Stanford University. Dept. of Computer Science--Faculty.
College teachers.
Computer programs.
Computer science.
Computer scientists.
Computerized typesetting.
METAFONT (Computer system).
TeX (Computer system).