#62 – Donald Knuth

30 Dec 2019

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #62:

1. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
2. Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
3. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
4. Aesthetic Measure by George David Birkhoff

Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the “father of the analysis of algorithms”. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #219

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