Footnotes
[1] The word "algorithm" derives from the word "algorism" and the Greek word "arithmos". The word "algorism" comes from the Latinization of the name of Al–Khwārizmī[2] whereas the Greek word “arithmos” means “number”. [2] Muḥammad ibn Al–Khwārizmī (780‐850) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. He is considered one of the fathers of algebra. [RETURN]
[3] Donald Ervin Knuth, (1938- ), is a prominent American computer scientist and mathematician, renowned as the “father of the analysis of algorithms”. He authored the influential multi-volume work, The Art of Computer Programming, and made groundbreaking contributions to computational complexity analysis and literate programming. [RETURN]
[4] Corrado Böhm (1923‐2017) ...
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