John Myhill

John Myhill

John R. Myhill (Senior) was a mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University under Willard Van Orman Quine in 1949. He was professor at SUNY Buffalo from 1966 until his death in 1987. He also taught at several other universities.

In the theory of cellular automata, Myhill is known for proving (along with E. F. Moore) the Garden of Eden theorem, stating that a cellular automaton has a configuration with no predecessor, if and only if, it has two different asymptotic configurations which evolve to the same configuration, and for stating the firing squad synchronization problem.

His son, also called John Myhill, is a professor of linguistics in the English department of the University of Haifa in Israel.

ee also

* Rice-Myhill-Shapiro theorem
* Myhill isomorphism theorem
* Myhill-Nerode theorem
* Myhill's property
* Russell-Myhill Paradox
* Constructive set theory
* Firing squad synchronization problem

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