George Springer (mathematician)
American mathematician and computer scientist (1924–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George Springer (September 3, 1924 – February 18, 2019) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was professor emeritus of computer science at Indiana University Bloomington.[1]
George Springer | |
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Born | (1924-09-03)September 3, 1924 |
Died | February 18, 2019(2019-02-18) (aged 94) Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics, computer science |
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Doctoral advisor | Lars Ahlfors |
Springer is perhaps best known as the coauthor with Daniel P. Friedman of the widely used textbook Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming. Scheme is one of the two main dialects of LISP. Three of the pioneering books for Scheme are The Scheme Programming Language (1982) by R. Kent Dybvig, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985) by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, and Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming (1989) by Springer and Friedman.