Mathematician:Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a hugely influential Dutch pioneer of computer science.

Nationality
Dutch

History

 * Born: May 11, 1930
 * Died: August 6, 2002

Theorems and Definitions

 * The DJP Algorithm, also known as the Jarník Algorithm, Prim's Algorithm or the Prim-Jarník Algorithm
 * Dijkstra's Algorithm
 * The Dining Philosophers Problem
 * The Shunting-Yard Algorithm

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 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)
 * 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