Ronald V. Book

Ronald V. Book
Born	March 5, 1937
Fields	Computer Science
Alma mater	Harvard University
Thesis	Grammars with Time Functions
Doctoral advisor	Sheila Greibach
Doctoral students	Brenda Baker
Known for	computational complexity theory, term rewriting systems, formal language theory

Ronald Vernon Book (March 5 1937 – May 28, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California) worked in theoretical computer science.^[1] He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals. His papers are of great impact for computational complexity theory and term rewriting.

References

1. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ronald Vernon Book", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

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. 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.
• "In memoriam: Ronald V. Book", Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science 63, 1997: 292.

External links

• Ronald V. Book at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Ronald V. Book's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier