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Ronald V Book

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Name
  
Ronald Book

Alma mater
  
Harvard University


Fields
  
Computer Science

Doctoral advisor
  
Sheila Greibach

Thesis
  
Grammars with Time Functions

Known for
  
computational complexity theory, term rewriting systems, formal language theory

Died
  
May 28, 1997, Santa Barbara, California, United States

Books
  
String-rewriting systems, Currents in the Theory of Computing

Ronald Vernon Book (March 5 1937 – May 28, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California) worked in theoretical computer science. He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals. His papers are of great impact for computational complexity theory and term rewriting.

Additional reading

  • Du, Ding-Zhu; Ko, Ker-I, eds. (1997), "A summary of Ronald V. Book's scientific research", Advances in Algorithms, Languages, and Complexity, Springer, pp. xv–xvii, doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-3394-4 . See also listing of Book's publications, pp. xxiii–xxxiv
  • Du, Ding-Zhu; Ko, Ker-I (1998), "In memoriam Ronald V. Book", Theoretical Computer Science, 207 (1): 1–3, doi:10.1016/s0304-3975(98)90025-1 . See also foreword by Maurice Nivat, pp. xiii–xiv, and listing of Book's publications, pp. 5–11.
  • McNaughton, Robert (1998), "Contributions of Ronald V Book to the theory of string-rewriting systems", Theoretical Computer Science, 207 (1): 13–23, doi:10.1016/s0304-3975(98)00053-x .
  • "In memoriam: Ronald V. Book", Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science, 63: 292, 1997 .

    • References

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