George Springer (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Springer (mathematician)

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1924

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 18-Feb-2019

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.