ENGLISH

Beauty is our business: a birthday salute to Edsger W. Dijkstra

By W.H.J.Feijen , A.J.M. van Gasteren , D.Gries , J.Misra (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1990
ISBN
978-1-4612-8792-6, 978-1-4612-4476-9, 1461287928
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-4476-9
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
5 MB (5133022 bytes)
Series
Texts and Monographs in Computer Science
Pages
473\473
Library
kolxo3
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-11-04 21:00:00
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Description

More than anything else, this book is a tribute to Edsger W. Dijkstra, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, by just a few of those fortunate enough to be influenced by him and his work and to be called his friend or relation, his master, colleague, or pupil. This book contains fifty-four technical contributions in different areas of endeavor, although many of them deal with an area of particular concern to Dijkstra: programming. Each contribution is relatively short and could be digested in one sitting. Together, they form a nice cross section of the discipline of programming at the beginning of the nineties. While many know of Dijkstra's technical contributions, they may not be aware of his ultimate goal, the mastery of complexity in mathematics and computing science. He has forcefully argued that beauty and elegance are essential to this mastery. The title of this book, chosen to reflect his ultimate goal, comes from a sentence in an article of his on some beautiful arguments using mathematical induction: "... when we recognize the battle against chaos, mess, and unmastered complexity as one of computing sci- ence's major callings, we must admit that 'Beauty Is Our Business'."

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