Jan Willem Klop
Jan Willem Klop | |
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| Born | December 19, 1945 |
| Spouse | Marianne Leicher |
| Children | Maartje (1976) |
| Awards | University of East Anglia honorary doctorate (2002), IFIP WG 1.6 honorary member (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Combinatory Reduction Systems (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dirk van Dalen, Henk Barendregt |
| Doctoral students | Massimo Marchiori |
Jan Willem Klop (born 1945) is a professor of applied logic at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical logic from Utrecht University. Klop is known for his work on the algebra of communicating processes, co-author of TeReSe and his fixed point combinator
- Yk = (L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L)
where
- L = λabcdefghijklmnopqstuvwxyzr. (r (t h i s i s a f i x e d p o i n t c o m b i n a t o r))
Klop became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.