Ronald V. Book

Ronald V. Book
Born	March 5, 1937
Died	May 28, 1997 (1997-05-29) (aged 60)
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	computational complexity theory, term rewriting systems, formal language theory
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Thesis	Grammars with Time Functions
Doctoral advisor	Sheila Greibach
Doctoral students	Brenda Baker Ding-Zhu Du Kai Salomaa

Ronald Vernon Book (March 5 1937 – May 28, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California) was a theoretical computer scientist. He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals. His papers are of great impact for computational complexity theory and term rewriting.

Further reading

• Du, Ding-Zhu; Ko, Ker-I, eds. (1997), "A summary of Ronald V. Book's scientific research", Advances in Algorithms, Languages, and Complexity, Springer, pp. xv–xvii, doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-3394-4. See also listing of Book's publications, pp. xxiii–xxxiv
• Du, Ding-Zhu; Ko, Ker-I (1998), "In memoriam Ronald V. Book", Theoretical Computer Science, 207 (1): 1–3, doi:10.1016/s0304-3975(98)90025-1. See also foreword by Maurice Nivat, pp. xiii–xiv, and listing of Book's publications, pp. 5–11.
• McNaughton, Robert (1998), "Contributions of Ronald V Book to the theory of string-rewriting systems", Theoretical Computer Science, 207 (1): 13–23, doi:10.1016/s0304-3975(98)00053-x.
• "In memoriam: Ronald V. Book", Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science, 63: 292, 1997.

External links

• Ronald V. Book at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Ronald V. Book at DBLP Bibliography Server