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Leslie Blackett Wilson

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Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930[1]) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed on August, 1979.[2] Previosly, he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Computing Laboratory of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined the Computing Laboratory in 1964. Before that, from 1951, he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Dunfermline.[1][3]

He was the doctoral advisor of Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter. He has an Erdős number of three.

Education

Leslie Blackett Wilson got a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Durham University in 1951 and a D.Sc. degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980.[1][3]

Books

  • Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Comparative programming languages (second ed.). Boston, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 374. ISBN 0201568853. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |month=, |trans_chapter=, |chapterurl=, |laysummary=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)
  • Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1983). Information Representation and Manipulation Using Pascal. Cambridge Computer Science Texts. Vol. 15. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 284. ISBN 0521249546. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |trans_title=, |month=, |trans_chapter=, |chapterurl=, |laysummary=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)
  • Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1979). An introduction to computational combinatorics. Cambridge Computer Science Texts. Vol. 9. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 0521294924. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |trans_title=, |month=, |trans_chapter=, |chapterurl=, |laysummary=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)
  • Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1978). Information, Representation and Manipulation in a Computer (second ed.). New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052129357X. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |trans_title=, |month=, |trans_chapter=, |chapterurl=, |laysummary=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)

References

  1. ^ a b c Who's who in science in Europe : a biographical guide in science, technology, agriculture, and medicine. Detroit, MI, USA: Longman. 1984. p. 786. ISBN 058290109X.
  2. ^ Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz and Wilson, Leslie Blackett. "The cycle cover problem", University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Laboratory, Report Series, no. 131, 1979.
  3. ^ a b Who's Who in Scotland. Ayr, Strathclyde, Scotland: Carrick Pub. 1986. p. 527. ISBN 094672413X.