Mathematician:Edward M. Reingold

Mathematician
American computer scientist active in the fields of algorithms, data structures, graph drawing, and calendrical calculations. Inventor of the notation $\lg x$ as a convenient notation for $\log_2 x$.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 1945
 * 1996: Inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
 * 2000: Retired from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Took a position as professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Theorems and Definitions

 * Reingold-Tilford Algorithm (with )

Publications

 * 1981 Tidier Drawings of Trees (with ) (in which the Reingold-Tilford Algorithm is introduced)
 * 1997: Calendrical Calculations (with ) (3rd edition 2007)