Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adriaan van Wijngaarden

Dutch computer scientist

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1916

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1987

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, programmer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden (2 November 1916 – 7 February 1987) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages.