- Jack van Lint
Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint (
1 September 1932 ,Bandung –28 September 2004 ) was a Dutch mathematician,professor at theEindhoven University of Technology , of which he wasrector magnificus from 1991 till 1996.He gained his Ph.D. from
Utrecht University in 1957 under the supervision of F. van der Blij. [MathGenealogy|id=51426] He was professor of mathematics atEindhoven University of Technology from 1959 to 1997.He was appointed a full professor at
Eindhoven University of Technology at the age of 26 years. His field of research was initiallynumber theory , but he worked mainly incombinatorics andcoding theory . [B. van Asch, A. Blockhuis, H. Hollmann, W. Kantor, H. van Tilborg, Jack van Lint (1932-2004): A survey of his scientific work,"Journal of Combinatorial Theory ", Series A, 113 (2006), 1594-1613]Van Lint was honored with a great number of awards. He became a member of
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in 1972, received four honorary doctorates, was an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Mathematics Society (Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap), and received aKnighthood .References
External links
* [http://www.win.tue.nl/~jlint/ Personal web site]
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