Early life
Knuth was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Ervin Henry Knuth and Louise Marie Bohning. He describes his heritage as "Midwestern Lutheran German". His father owned a small printing

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Knuth is a writer, as well as a computer scientist.
The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP)
"The best way to communicate from one human being to another is through story."— Donald Knuth

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Knuth gives informal lectures a few times a year at Stanford University, which he titled "Computer Musings". He was a visiting professor at the Oxford University Department of Computer Science in the United Kingdom until 2017 and an Honorary Fellow of

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Knuth is an organist and a composer. In 2016 he completed a musical piece for organtitled Fantasia Apocalyptica, which he describes as

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Donald Knuth married Nancy Jill Carter on 24 June 1961, while he was a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology. They have

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In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. He has received various other awards including the

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Digital typesetting
In the 1970s the publishers of TAOCP abandoned Monotype in favor of phototypesetting. Knuth became so frustrated with the inability

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