Ronald Vernon Book (March 5 1937 ? May 28, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California ) was a theoretical computer scientist . ^[1] He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals. His papers are of great impact for computational complexity theory and term rewriting.

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Further reading [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

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