Spouse Marianne Leicher Education Utrecht University Role Author | Name Jan Klop Children Maartje (1976) | |
Born December 19, 1945
Gorinchem ( 1945-12-19 ) Thesis Combinatory Reduction Systems (1980) Doctoral students Jorg Endrullis, Clemens Grabmayer, Jeroen Ketema, Massimo Marchiori, Aart Middeldorp, Robert Jan van Glabbeek, Vincent van Oostrom, Femke van Raamsdonk Notable awards University of East Anglia honorary doctorate (2002), IFIP WG 1.6 honorary member (2011) Books Diagram Techniques for Confluence, A Geometric Proof of Confluence by Decreasing Diagrams Doctoral advisor Dirk van Dalen, Henk Barendregt Similar People Jan Bergstra, Henk Barendregt, Massimo Marchiori | ||
Notable 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.
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