2. Fact File….
• Name: Donald Knuth
• Surname is pronounced - Ka-NOOTH.
• Born 10th January 1983 in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
• His Father was Ervin Henry Knuth
• His Mother was Louise Marie Bohning
• Donald attended Lutheran School’s as
a child
• As a child Donald gained a love for
education, music and mathematics.
• With age Donald’s main two loves
were the organ and investigating
sentence structure.
3. Humble beginnings….
• In secondary School Donald won a
conundrum competition; the task was to
find as many words out of the word –
‘Ziegler’s Giant Bar’
• He found 4500 words – whilst pretending
he was too ill to attend school
• The judges only had 2500 words on their
master list.
• He a played the Saxophone and tuba in
secondary school – his main interests
were music and maths.
• He gained a scholarship to Case
Institute of Technology in
Cleveland, Ohio in 1956 to study Physics
4. Donald is a Commuter Hero because….
Donald moved away from
Physics and into Mathematics
He graduated with his B.S. in
June 1960 with distinction
College also awarded him a
Master's Degree.
He was also awarded 2
fellowships (Woodrow and
Wilson)
Donald has written a set of box
called ‘The Art of Computer
Programming.
6. Question 1
Private school
Church of England school
Lutheran School
Roman Catholic School
What type of school did
Donald attend?
7. Question 2
100
1500
3000
4500
5000
How many words did
Donald find in the
conundrum?
8. Question 3
Computer Science and Music
Music and Maths
Science and History
Physics and Maths
What subject did Donald
gain a subject to study and
what subject did he then
move towards?
9. Question 4
The Art of Computer
Programming
The Art of Maths and Physics
The Art of Playing the Organ
The Art of Understanding
Maths
What box set of books has
Donald written?
10. Question 5
Case Institute of Physics
Case Institute of Technology in
Cleveland
University of the USA
College of Maths
Donald studied at
