What is Leslie Lamport?
Leslie Lamport is a [[computer scientist]] and [[mathematician]]. He was born on the 7th of February 1941. He is well known for being the creator of [[LaTeX]], a document formatter along with writing the manual for the formatter.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/latex00lesl|title=LaTeX: A Document Preparation System|last=Lamport|first=Leslie|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1986|isbn=978-0-201-15790-1|access-date=2019-06-20|url-access=registration}}</ref> == Early life == Leslie was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from [[Russia]] and [[Poland]] in the city of [[New York City|New York]]. He was a graduate from the [[Bronx High School of Science]] and got a degree in [[mathematics]] from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and [[Brandeis University]] in the years 1960, 1963, and 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Writings of Leslie Lamport|url=https://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html|access-date=2024-01-14|website=research.microsoft.com}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamport, Leslie}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:American computer scientists]]