BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-80-786
       ENTRY:: June 08, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Algorithms in modern mathematics and computer science
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Knuth, Donald E.
        DATE:: January 1980
       PAGES:: 30
    ABSTRACT:: The life and work of the ninth century scientist
               al-Khwarizmi, "the father of algebra and algorithms," is
               surveyed briefly. Then a random sampling technique is used in
               an attempt to better understand the kinds of thinking that
               good mathematicians and computer scientists do and to analyze
               whether such thinking is significantly "algorithmic" in
               nature. (This is the text of a talk given at the opening
               session of a symposium on "Algorithms in Modern Mathamatics
               and Computer Science" held in Urgench, Khorezm Oblast', Uzbek
               S.S.R., during the week of September 16-22, 1979.)
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950608]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-80-786