Peter Naur
1928 – 2016
Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner, who began his career as an astronomer. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages.
Books
- Software engineering
- Bericht über Die Algorithmische Sprache ALGOL 60
- A Manual of Gier Algol 4.
- Datamaskinerne og samfundet
- Revised report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60
- Revidierter Bericht über Die Algorithmische Sprache Algol 60
- Antiphilosophical dictionary
- Computing
- Knowing and the mystique of logic and rules
- Tolv opgaver i algoritmisk analyse
- Concise survey of computer methods
- Minor planet 51 Nemausa and the fundamental system of declinations
- Minor planet 51 Nemausa and the fundamental system of declinations
- Utopier
- Pluralism in Software Engineering
- Bericht über die algorithmische Sprache ALGOL, 60
- The energy production in convective cores in stars
- Stellar models based on the proton-proton reaction
- An anatomy of human mental life
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