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Donald Knuth (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's biography of Donald Knuth, the American computer scientist known for The Art of Computer Programming and for his rigorous mathematical treatment of algorithm analysis, including fixing the standard meaning of Big O and its companion asymptotic notations.
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