George Springer (mathematician)

George Springer
Born(1924-09-03)September 3, 1924
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
DiedFebruary 18, 2019(2019-02-18) (aged 94)
Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Brown University
  • Harvard University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, computer science
Institutions
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1949–51)
  • Northwestern University (1951–54)
  • University of Münster (1954–55)
  • University of Kansas (1955–61)
  • University of Würzburg (1961–62)
  • Imperial College London (1971–72)
  • Indiana University Bloomington (1964–retirement)
Doctoral advisor
Lars Ahlfors

George Springer (September 3, 1924 – February 18, 2019) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was professor emeritus of computer science at Indiana University Bloomington.

Springer is perhaps best known as the coauthor with Daniel P. Friedman of the widely used textbook Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming. Scheme is one of the two main dialects of LISP. Three of the pioneering books for Scheme are The Scheme Programming Language (1982) by R. Kent Dybvig, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985) by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, and Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming (1989) by Springer and Friedman.

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