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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See also
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References
External links
- Axel Thue private archive exists at NTNU University Library Dorabiblioteket
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- ↑ Ronald V. Book and Friedrich Otto, String-rewriting Systems, Springer, 1993, Template:Isbn, p. 36.