Ronald V. Book
Ronald V. Book | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 5, 1937 |
| Died | May 28, 1997 (aged 60) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | computational complexity theory, term rewriting systems, formal language theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Thesis | Grammars with Time Functions |
| Doctoral advisor | Sheila Greibach |
| Doctoral students | |
Ronald Vernon Book (March 5 1937 – May 28, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California) was a theoretical computer scientist.[1] He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals. His papers are of great impact for computational complexity theory and term rewriting.
References
[edit]- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ronald Vernon Book", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
Further reading
[edit]- Du, Ding-Zhu; Ko, Ker-I, eds. (1997), "A summary of Ronald V. Book's scientific research", Advances in Algorithms, Languages, and Complexity, Springer, pp. xv–xvii, doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-3394-4. See also listing of Book's publications, pp. xxiii–xxxiv
- Du, Ding-Zhu; Ko, Ker-I (1998), "In memoriam Ronald V. Book", Theoretical Computer Science, 207 (1): 1–3, doi:10.1016/s0304-3975(98)90025-1. See also foreword by Maurice Nivat, pp. xiii–xiv, and listing of Book's publications, pp. 5–11.
- McNaughton, Robert (1998), "Contributions of Ronald V Book to the theory of string-rewriting systems", Theoretical Computer Science, 207 (1): 13–23, doi:10.1016/s0304-3975(98)00053-x.
- "In memoriam: Ronald V. Book", Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science, 63: 292, 1997.
External links
[edit]- Ronald V. Book at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Ronald V. Book at DBLP Bibliography Server
