Adriaan van Wijngaarden
Dutch mathematician and computer scientist
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Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van Wijngaarden emphasized and promoted the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming... Wikipedia
Born: November 2, 1916, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died: February 7, 1987 (age 70 years), Amstelveen, Netherlands
Notable students: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Hugo Brandt Corstius, Jacobus Verhoeff, and more