Ronald Vernon Book (March 5 1937 – May 28, 1997 in
Santa Barbara, California
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) was a
theoretical computer scientist
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.
He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals.
His papers are of great impact for
computational complexity theory
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and term rewriting.
References
Further reading
*. See also listing of Book's publications, pp. xxiii–xxxiv
*. See also foreword by Maurice Nivat, pp. xiii–xiv, and listing of Book's publications, pp. 5–11.
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20th-century American mathematicians
1937 births
1997 deaths
Theoretical computer scientists
Harvard University alumni