Knuth was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his father owned a small printing business and taught bookkeeping at Milwaukee Lutheran High School, where he enrolled, earning achievement awards.

While studying physics at the Case Institute of Technology, Knuth was introduced to the IBM 650, one of the early mainframes.

“ It was a totally new field ," Knuth recalls, “ with no real identity.

In 2006, Knuth was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth 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.

In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award.

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.

" In an interview, Donald Knuth said " The Itanium approach ... was supposed to be so terrific — until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write.

< tt > MMIX </ tt > ( pronounced em-mix ) is a 64-bit RISC architecture designed by Donald Knuth, with significant contributions by John L. Hennessy ( who contributed to the design of the MIPS architecture ) and Richard L. Sites ( who was an architect of the Alpha architecture ).

The popular typesetting system TeX by Donald E. Knuth was written in WEB, the original literate programming system, based on DEC PDP-10 Pascal, while applications like Total Commander, Skype and Macromedia Captivate were written in Delphi ( Object Pascal ).

After winning a Westinghouse Talent Search scholarship, Knuth enrolled at the Case Institute of Technology ( now Case Western Reserve University ), where his performance was so outstanding that the faculty voted to award him a master of science upon his completion of the baccalaureate degree.

During his summer vacations, Knuth was hired to write compilers, earning more in his summer months than did full professors all year.

In June 1965, Knuth finished the first draft of what was originally planned to be a single volume of twelve chapters.

At this point, Knuth received support from Richard S. Varga, who was the scientific advisor to the publisher.

Metafont was devised by Donald Knuth as counterpart to his TeX typesetting system.

At Stanford, he was supervised by Robert Floyd and Donald Knuth, both highly prominent computer scientists, and his Ph. D. dissertation was An Efficient Planarity Algorithm.

The notation of using brackets and braces, in analogy to the binomial coefficients, was introduced in 1935 by Jovan Karamata and promoted later by Donald Knuth ; it is referred to as Karamata notation.

The quater-imaginary numeral system was first proposed by Donald Knuth in 1955, in a submission to a high-school science talent search.

* The Metafont interpreter was written by Donald Knuth under an open source license, allowing John D. Hobby to adapt the interpreter to his own ends, giving us MetaPost.

According to Donald Knuth, the buddy system was invented in 1963 by Harry Markowitz, who won the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and was first described by Kenneth C. Knowlton ( published 1965 ).

One of the first computer typesetting programs to take advantage of computer-driven typesetting ( and later laser printers ) was the TeX program of Donald Knuth ( see below for more on this ).

However, because these tools do not implement the " web of abstract concepts " hiding behind the system of natural-language macros, or provide an ability to change the order of the source code from a machine-imposed sequence to one convenient to the human mind, they cannot properly be called literate programming tools in the sense intended by Knuth.

WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald E. Knuth as the first implementation of what he called " literate programming ": the idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding source code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse ( as is common practice in most programming languages ), in an order that is convenient for exposition to human readers, rather than in the order demanded by the compiler.

For example, any post by author " Donald Knuth " might be automatically scored high, whereas one by " Script Kiddie " might be scored lower.

A desire to re-create the aesthetic qualities of hot lead spurred Donald Knuth to create one of the first general purpose digital typesetting programs,

Knuth explains that $ 2. 56, or 256 cents, corresponds to one hexadecimal dollar.

Knuth is often unable to answer immediately when a reader finds a mistake in one of his books or programs.

But this further abuse is not necessary if, following Knuth one distinguishes between O and

It is also one of the units in the magazine's joke Potrzebie unit system created by Donald E. Knuth, in which it is the equivalent of a year.

Knuth comments that ALGOL 60 cannot express an procedure that increases its argument by one ; the call does not do the expected action if is a functional that changes with each access .< ref >.

# Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science ( Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no.

* Mihalis Yannakakis-Computer scientist, laureate of the 2005 Knuth Prize for numerous ground-breaking contributions to Theoretical Computer Science

* Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation For Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik

According to an article in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review, these Knuth reward checks are " among computerdom's most prized trophies ".

In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran, is also the author of 3: 16 Bible Texts Illuminated, in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book.

Knuth gives informal lectures a few times a year at Stanford University, which he called Computer Musings.

* At the TUG 2010 Conference, Knuth announced an XML-based successor to TeX, titled " iTeX " (, with a bell ringing ), which would support features such as arbitrarily scaled irrational units, 3D printing, animation, and stereophonic sound.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

Knuth also claims that literate programming provides a first-rate documentation system, which is not an add-on, but is grown naturally in the process of exposition of one's thoughts during a program creation.

Such exploits made Knuth a topic of discussion among the mathematics department, which included Richard S. Varga.

In his book, which takes the form of a dialogue, Knuth coined the term surreal numbers for what Conway had simply called numbers originally.

Continuing in this manner leads to iterated exponentiation ( tetration ) and to the remainder of the hyperoperation sequence, which is commonly denoted using Knuth arrow notation.

Exponentiation for a natural power is defined as iterated multiplication, which Knuth denoted by a single up-arrow:

The superscript notation doesn't lend itself well to generalization, which explains why Knuth chose to work from the inline notation instead.

In October 2008 Donald Knuth established the Bank of San Serriffe ( in Thirty Point, Caissa Inferiore, San Serriffe ), which is an offshore institution that has branches in Blefuscu and Elbonia on the planet Pincus.

According to Knuth, the basis of this new revolutionary system is the potrzebie, which equals the thickness of Mad issue 26, or 2. 263348517438173216473 mm.

T < sub > E </ sub > X ( usually written TeX in plain text ) is a typesetting system written by Donald Knuth, which is popular in academia, especially in the mathematics, physics and computer science communities.

The concept was first introduced as a position tree by, which Donald Knuth subsequently characterized as " Algorithm of the Year 1973 ".

This is the size of the point in the TeX computer typesetting system by Donald Knuth, which predates PostScript slightly.

In their 1977 work " The Early Development of Programming Languages ", Trabb Pardo and Knuth introduced a trivial program which involved arrays, indexing, mathematical functions, subroutines, I / O, conditionals and iteration.

First implemented in METAFONT, AMS Euler was first used in the book Concrete Mathematics, co-authored by Knuth, which was dedicated to Euler.

For example, on 1 July 1996, Knuth sent out more than 250 letters, 125 of which contained checks, for errors reported in The Art of Computer Programming since the summer of 1981.

The Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm, which Pratt designed in the early 1970s together with fellow Stanford professor Donald Knuth and independently from Morris, is still the most efficient general string searching algorithm known today.

László Lovász (, born March 9, 1948 ) is a Hungarian – American mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010.

It is a simplification of the Boyer – Moore string search algorithm which is related to the Knuth – Morris – Pratt algorithm.

" Knuth credits Hiroshi Hitotsumatsu and Kōhei Noshita with having invented the idea in 1979, but it is his paper which has popularized it.