Mathematician:Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
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Mathematician
Hugely influential Dutch pioneer of computer science.
Nationality
Dutch
History
- Born: 1 May 1930 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Died: 6 August 2002 in Nuenen, The Netherlands
Theorems and Definitions
- The DJP Algorithm, also known as the Jarník Algorithm, Prim's Algorithm or the Prim-Jarník Algorithm (independently of Robert Clay Prim and Vojtěch Jarník)
- Dijkstra's Algorithm
- The Dining Philosophers Problem
- The Shunting-Yard Algorithm
Results named for Edsger Wybe Dijkstra can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Edsger Wybe Dijkstra can be found here.
Publications
- March 1968: Go to statement considered harmful (Letters to the editor: Communications of the ACM)
- Aug 1972: The Humble Programmer (Communications of the ACM)
- 1972: Structured Programming (with O.-J. Dahl and C.A.R. Hoare)
- 1975: Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs (Commun. ACM Vol. 18: pp. 453 – 457)
- 1976: A Discipline of Programming
- May 1982: How do we tell truths that might hurt? (SIGPLAN Notice)
- 1982: Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective
- 1988 A Method of Programming (with W.H.J. Feijen and J. Sterringa)
- 1988: The Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science