Axel Thue

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Template:Short description Template:Otheruses Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Axel Thue (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 19 February 1863 – 7 March 1922) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for his original work in diophantine approximation and combinatorics.

Work

Thue published his first important paper in 1909.[1]

He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem.[2]

His only known PhD student was Thoralf Skolem.

The esoteric programming language Thue is named after him.

Publications

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  1. Template:MacTutor Biography
  2. Ronald V. Book and Friedrich Otto, String-rewriting Systems, Springer, 1993, Template:Isbn, p. 36.