Mathematician:Peter Naur

Mathematician
Danish astronomer, computer scientist and empirical philosopher who was significantly involved in the development of ALGOL.

The metalanguage Backus-Naur Form was named after (who invented it) and him (who refined it), but would rather it were called Backus Normal Form.

Nationality
Danish

History

 * Born: October 25, 1928

Theorems and Definitions

 * Backus-Naur Form

Publications

 * 1960: Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60 (as editor) (for which he won the Turing Award in 2005)
 * 1992: Computing: A Human Activity
 * 1992: Computing: A Human Activity