Ronald V. Book

Ronald V. Book
Born	March 5, 1937
Fields	Computer Science
Alma mater	Harvard University
Thesis	Grammars with Time Functions
Doctoral advisor	Sheila Greibach
Known for	computational complexity theory, term rewriting systems, formal language theory

Ronald Vernon Book (March 5 1937 – May 28, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California) worked in theoretical computer science. He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals. He gave many talks at the following conferences:

• STOC (Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing)
• FOCS (Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science)
• ICALP (International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming sponsored by the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science)
• MFCS (International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science)

His papers are of great impact for computational complexity theory and term rewriting.

Biographic notions

1. A summary of Ronald V. Book's scientific research. In Advances in algorithms, languages, and complexity (Dordrecht, 1997), pp xv-xvii.
2. D-Z Du and K-I Ko: In memoriam Ronald V. Book In Theoretical Computer Science 207 (1), pp 1–3, 1998.
3. In memoriam: Ronald V. Book In: Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) 63, p 292, 1997.
4. List of Ronald V. Book's publications. In memoriam of Ronald V Book, In Theoret. Comput. Sci. 207 (1), pp 5–11, 1998.
5. List of Ronald V. Book's publications. In Advances in algorithms, languages, and complexity (Dordrecht, 1997), pp xxiii-xxxiv.
6. Robert McNaughton: Contributions of Ronald V Book to the theory of string-rewriting systems. In memoriam of Ronald V Book, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 207 (1), pp 13–23, 1998.
7. Maurice Nivat: Foreword in memoriam Ronald V Book. In memoriam of Ronald V Book, In Theoret. Comput. Sci. 207 (1), pp xiii-xiv, 1998.

External links

• Ronald V. Book at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Ronald V. Book's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier