Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms: Volume 102 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Knuth, Donald E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575862123 ISBN 13: 9781575862125

Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 2000

Synopsis

Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become classics; his scientific papers are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide range of topics. The present volume, which is the fourth in a series of his collected works, is devoted to an important subfield of Computer Science that Knuth founded in the 1960s and still considers his main life's work. This field, to which he gave the name Analysis of Algorithms, deals with quantitative studies of computer techniques, leading to methods for understanding and predicting the efficiency of computer programs. More than 30 of the papers that helped to shape this field are reprinted and updated in the present collection, together with historical material that has not previously been published.

About this title

About the Author

Donald E. Knuth is one of the world's pre-eminent computer scientists, whose works have had a profound influence on the subject since the publication in 1968 of the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth created TeX, a language for typesetting mathematical and scientific texts, and METAFONT, a computer software system for alphabet design. He is professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1575862123
• ISBN 13: 9781575862125
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 638