Person: Backus, John Warner

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John Backus was an American mathematician best known for the invention of FORTRAN and for the BNF notation for describing the syntax of a programming language.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 3 December 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 17 March 2007, Ashland, Jackson, Oregon, USA.

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References

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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive