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6 unusual facts about Oren Patashnik


Concrete Mathematics

Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, is a textbook that is widely used in computer-science departments.

Farey sequence

Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463).

Oren Patashnik

In 1985, Patashnik created the bibliography-system, BibTeX, in collaboration with Leslie Lamport, the creator of LaTeX.

BibTeX is a widely used bibliography-formatting tool for LaTeX.

He is notable for co-creating BibTeX, and co-writing Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science.

Ronald Graham

He has published about 320 papers and five books, including Concrete Mathematics with Donald Knuth and Oren Patashnik.



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