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Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist whose work in algorithm analysis, programming methodology, and digital typography has shaped the institutionalization of computer science. In particular, his series The Art of Computer Programming, the concept of literate programming, and the TeX system have defined the theoretical and practical framework of the discipline. Early Life Donald Ervin Knuth was born on January 10, 1938, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Ervin Henry Knuth and Louise Mari

John Horton Conway was a British mathematician who made fundamental contributions to group theory, number theory, knot theory, and combinatorial game theory; he discovered the Game of Life and surreal numbers. Throughout his career he held professorships at Cambridge and Princeton universities and conducted pioneering work on the classification of finite simple groups and sphere packings. Early Life and Academic Education John Horton Conway was born on 26 December 1937 in Liverpool, England, to