George Springer (September 3, 1924 – February 18, 2019) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
[1] Springer is perhaps best known as the coauthor with Daniel P. Friedman of the widely used textbook Scheme and the Art of Computer Programming.
He earned his PhD in 1949 from Harvard University with thesis The Coefficient Problem for Univalent Mappings of the Exterior of the Unit Circle under Lars Ahlfors.
In the academic year 1954/1955 as a Fulbright Lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Münster he worked with Heinrich Behnke.
Springer began his career working in function theory (of one and several complex variables) and wrote a textbook on Riemann surfaces.