Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a 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".
Alfred Vaino Aho is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages,compilers,and related algorithms,and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming.
In mathematics education,Finite Mathematics is a syllabus in college and university mathematics that is independent of calculus. A course in precalculus may be a prerequisite for Finite Mathematics.
Robert Sedgewick is an American computer scientist. He is the founding chair and the William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University and was a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems (1990–2016). He previously served on the faculty at Brown University and has held visiting research positions at Xerox PARC,Institute for Defense Analyses,and INRIA. His research expertise is in algorithm science,data structures,and analytic combinatorics. He is also active in developing college curriculums in computer science.
John Torrence Tate Jr. was an American mathematician distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory,arithmetic geometry,and related areas in algebraic geometry. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010.
Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson plc,a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books,Addison–Wesley also distributes its technical titles through the O'Reilly Online Learning e-reference service. Addison–Wesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) and Europe (22%).
LászlóLovász is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University,best known for his work in combinatorics,for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2007 to 2010 and the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2014 to 2020.
Pearson Education,known since 2011 as simply Pearson,is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc. The subsidiary was formed in 1998,when Pearson plc acquired Simon &Schuster's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing education company Addison-Wesley Longman. Pearson Education was restyled as simply Pearson in 2011. In 2016,the diversified parent corporation Pearson plc rebranded to focus entirely on education publishing and services,and as of 2023 Pearson Education is Pearson plc's main subsidiary.
The University of the Philippines Rural High School was established as a subsidiary of the Department of Agricultural Education of the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture,pursuant to Sec.4 of Act 3377 of the Philippine Legislature which was approved on December 3,1927. The school,with a vocational curriculum,served as a practice school for the training of teachers,provided secondary education in agriculture for those preparing for college,and trained intermediate school graduates in agriculture.
George Eyre Andrews is an American mathematician working in special functions,number theory,analysis and combinatorics.
Robert Works Fuller is an American physicist,author,social reformer,and former president of Oberlin College.
Lawrence David (Larry) Brown was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory,recurrence and partial differential equations,nonparametric function estimation,minimax and adaptation theory,and the analysis of census data and call-center data.
William Edgar Fulton is an American mathematician,specializing in algebraic geometry.
Samuel Karlin was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.
Edwin Evariste Moise was an American mathematician and mathematics education reformer. After his retirement from mathematics he became a literary critic of 19th-century English poetry and had several notes published in that field.
Barry Charles Mazur is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory,Mazur's torsion theorem in arithmetic geometry,the Mazur swindle in geometric topology,and the Mazur manifold in differential topology.
Fred Stephen Roberts is an American mathematician,a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University,and a former director of DIMACS.
Lynn Harold Loomis was an American mathematician working on analysis. Together with Hassler Whitney,he discovered the Loomis–Whitney inequality.
Wilfred Kaplan was a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan for 46 years,from 1940 through 1986. His research focused on dynamical systems,the topology of curve families,complex function theory,and differential equations. In total,he authored over 30 research papers and 11 textbooks.
Stevan Pilipović is a Professor of Mathematics,since 1987,at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of Novi Sad University.
