Adriaan van Wijngaarden

Adriaan van Wijngaarden
Born	(1916-11-02)2 November 1916 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died	7 February 1987(1987-02-07) (aged 70) Amstelveen, Netherlands
Citizenship	Netherlands
Alma mater	Delft University of Technology (1939)
Known for	ALGOL CWI IFIP Van Wijngaarden grammar
Awards	IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (1986)
Scientific career
Fields	Numerical mathematics Computer science
Institutions	University of Amsterdam Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam
Doctoral advisor	Cornelis Benjamin Biezeno
Doctoral students	Edsger W. Dijkstra Peter van Emde Boas Jaco de Bakker Reinder van de Riet Guus Zoutendijk Maarten van Emden
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Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden (2 November 1916 – 7 February 1987) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van Wijngaarden emphasized and promoted the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of such languages.