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Leslie Lamport is a
computer scientist
and
mathematician
. He was born on the 7th of Febuary 1941. He is well known for being the creator of
LaTeX
, a document formatter along with writing the manual for the formatter.
[1]
Leslie was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from
Russia
and
Poland
in the city of
New York
. He was a graduate from the
Bronx High School of Science
and got a degree in
mathematics
from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and
Brandeis University
in the years 1960, 1963, and 1972.
[2]
