Robert Tarjan
1948
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: California Institute of Technology, Stanford University
occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, university teacher
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Turing Award, IMU Abacus Medal, Paris Kanellakis Award, O'Reilly Open Source Award, ACM Fellow, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
influenced by: Martin Gardner
Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph theory algorithms, including his strongly connected components algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps. Tarjan is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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