Joachim Lambek

Joachim Lambek (born 5 Dec 1922) is Peter Redpath Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1950 with Hans Julius Zassenhaus as advisor. He is called Jim by his friends.

Scholarly work

Lambek supervised 16 doctoral students, and had 51 doctoral descendants. He has over 100 publications listed in the Mathematical Reviews, including 6 books. His earlier work was mostly in module theory, especially torsion theories, non-commutative localization, and injective modules. One of his earliest papers, harv|Lambek|Moser|1954 proved the Lambek-Moser theorem about integer sequences. His more recent work is in pregroups and formal languages; his earliest work in this field were probably harv|Lambek|1958 and harv|Lambek|1979. He is noted, among other things, for the Lambek calculus, an effort to capture mathematical aspects of natural language syntax in logical form and a work that has been very influential in computational linguistics. He is currently working on pregroup grammar.

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* [http://www.math.mcgill.ca/people/lambek Faculty profile of Joachim Lambek] at McGill University
* [http://www.math.mcgill.ca/triples/lambek97/Lambek.biography.html An appreciation of Jim Lambek at McGill] by Michael Barr (a biographical talk given on the occasion of his 75th birthday)
* [http://www.math.mcgill.ca/triples/Lambfest02/ Lambek festival] (80th annivarsary)

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