During this process, he had popularized asymptotic notation. Besides the contribution he had in many fundamental contributions of many branches of theoretical computer science, he has also been a creator of TeX computer typesetting system with the related definition language of METAFONT with its rendering system with the computer modern family of the typefaces.

As a scholar and a author, Knuth created CWEB and WEB computer programming system that it is designed to facilitate and encourage literate programming while he designed MIX/MMIX instruction set architecture. He is the opposant of granting the software patents and he had expressed the opinion he has in European Patent Organization and United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Donald Knuth was born in the city of Milwaukee, in the Wisconsin. Her parents are German-Americans. His father is Ervin Henry Knuth while his mother is Louise Marie Bohning. The father was working for two jobs, he was running a printing company and he was the teacher of bookkeeping at the Milwaukee Lutheran High School. Donald Knuth went to Milwaukee Lutheran High School for his education. He received the academic accolades while he was at the school and this was because of the ingenious ways that he was able to solve some problems.

When he wanted to go to college, he had some problems since he wanted to learn both music and physics and it was hard for him to choose while attending Case Institute of Technology, now called Case Western Reserve University. He was also a part of Beta Nu Chapter at Theta Chi Fraternity.

When he was doing physics on Case Institute of Technology, he introduced IBM 650. This is among the early mainframes. After reading a manual of a computer, he decided that he is going to rewrite the assembly and to compile the code for machine that were being used in the school, since he said that he was able to do better than that.

Donald Knuth is called Gao Dena in Chinese and he was given the name before he went to China for 3 week trip because of his book. He wanted to be recognized easily by his students and this name was put into the header of the Journal of Computer Science and he says that it makes him to feel closer to them. He got married in 1961 and his wife is Jill Knuth. He has got many awards, including ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, John Von Neumann Medal, National Medal of Science and Turing Award. His net worth is not recorded.