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Jan Willem Klop
Born(1945-12-19)December 19, 1945
SpouseMarianne Leicher
ChildrenMaartje (1976)[1]
AwardsUniversity of East Anglia honorary doctorate (2002), IFIP WG 1.6 honorary member (2011)
Scientific career
ThesisCombinatory Reduction Systems (1980)
Doctoral advisorDirk van Dalen, Henk Barendregt
Doctoral studentsMassimo 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[2] and his fixed point combinator[3]

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.[4]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ Curriculum vitae
  2. ^ Marc Bezem; Jan Willem Klop; Roel de Vrijer, eds. (2003). Terese — Term Rewriting Systems. Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science. Vol. 55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ Jan Willem Klop (2007). "New Fixed Point Combinators From Old" (PDF). In Erik Barendsen; Herman Geuvers; Venanzio Capretta; Milad Niqui (eds.). Reflections on Type Theory, Lambda Calculus, and the Mind — Essays Dedicated to Henk Barendregt on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday]. University Nijmegen. pp. 197–210. ISBN 978-90-9022446-6. Here: nr.1.3, p.198
  4. ^ "Jan Willem Klop". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
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