Mathematician:Niklaus Emil Wirth

Mathematician

Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering.

Nationality

Swiss

History

• Born: 15 February 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

• Wirth's Law
• Wirth Interval Notation
• Wirth Syntax Notation

Results named for Niklaus Emil Wirth can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Niklaus Emil Wirth can be found here.

Publications

• April 1971: Program Development by Stepwise Refinement (Communications of the ACM Vol. 14, no. 4: pp. 221 – 7)
• 1974: On the Design of Programming Languages (Proc. IFIP Congress Vol. 74: pp. 386 – 393)
• November 1977: What Can We Do about the Unnecessary Diversity of Notations for Syntax Definitions? (Communications of the ACM Vol. 20, no. 11: pp. 822 – 823)