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Alexandra Illmer Forsythe

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Alexandra Illmer Forsythe's Degrees

PhD Computer Science Stanford University
Masters Mathematics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Alexandra Winifred Illmer Forsythe was an American computer scientist best known for co-authoring a series of computer science textbooks during the 1960s and 1970s, including the first ever computer science textbook, Computer Science: A First Course, in 1969.

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Alexandra Illmer Forsythe's Published Works

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Computer Science, A First Course. (1971) (61)
On the commutativity of certain rings (1946) (34)
Computer science;: A first course (1969) (21)
1 – BASIC CONCEPTS (1978) (7)
Divisors of Zero in Polynomial Rings (1943) (4)
Computer science : Basic language programming (1970) (2)
Computer science: FORTRAN language (1970) (1)
Mathematics and computing in high school: a betrothal (1964) (1)
Computer Science: Programming in FORTRAN IV with Watfor-Watfiv (1970) (1)
Computer science in high school mathematics (1966) (0)
Oral history interview with Alexandra Forsythe (1979) (0)
Computer science in high school mathematics (1966) (0)
4 – SYNTAX FORMALISM (1978) (0)
9 – MULTISEQUENCE ALGORITHMS (1978) (0)
Computer science: projects and study problems (1970) (0)
I.B.M. experiments with accelerated gradient methods for linear equations (1952) (0)
2 – INTERFACING PROCEDURES (1978) (0)
Introduction to Syntax and Semantics of Several Major Programming Languages (1978) (0)
What Points Are Equidistant From Two Skew Lines (1969) (0)

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