Curriculum Vitæ

Brief descriptions of my life and work can be obtained by downloading one or more short files in plain TeX format, or by viewing the corresponding DVI or PostScript files:

Brief biography
TeX file (2319 bytes); DVI file (3056 bytes); compressed PostScript file (16841 bytes)
Less brief biography
TeX file (5034 bytes); DVI file (6604 bytes); compressed PostScript file (16694 bytes)
Software-oriented biography
TeX file (3949 bytes); DVI file (4796 bytes); compressed PostScript file (20475 bytes)
One-paragraph autobiography
TeX file (1516 bytes); DVI file (1900 bytes); compressed PostScript file (11713 bytes)

For more extensive information, including

you need to download a somewhat larger file. Here you have the following choices (last updated 10 February 2021)
compressed TeX (54K bytes); compressed PostScript (141K bytes); Acrobat format (PDF) (325K bytes)

There's also a published book, containing the information above together with an annotated bibliography and an index to all the papers:


Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth

 

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Preprints of papers by Don Knuth

Books by Don Knuth

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