Dick de Jongh

Dick de Jongh

Dick H. J. de Jongh (born 1939) is a Dutch logician and mathematician and a retired professor at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD degree in 1968 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under supervision of Stephen Kleene with a dissertation entitled Investigations on the Intuitionistic Propositional Calculus.[1] De Jongh is mostly known for his work on proof theory, provability logic and intuitionistic logic. De Jongh is a member of the group collectively publishing under the pseudonym L. T. F. Gamut.[2] In 2004, on the occasion of his retirement, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam published a festschrift in his honor.[3]

References

  1. ^ Dick H. J. de Jongh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project..
  2. ^ Preface to Logic, Language and Meaning, by L. T. F. Gamut, University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  3. ^ Vriendenboek ofwel Liber Amicorum ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van Dick de Jongh, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 2004, http://www.illc.uva.nl/D65/ .

External links

  • Web page at the University of Amsterdam