Mathematician:Charles Antony Richard Hoare

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, otherwise known as C.A.R. Hoare or Tony Hoare, is a British mathematician and computer scientist best known for devising the Quicksort algorithm.

Nationality
British

History

 * Born: 11 January 1934 in Colombo, (British) Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

Theorems

 * Quicksort
 * Hoare-Ramshaw Notation (with Lyle Ramshaw)
 * Floyd-Hoare Logic (with Robert W Floyd)

Books and Papers

 * 1985: Communicating Sequential Processes