Pieter Cornelis Baayen
Pieter Cornelis "Cor" Baayen (born March 10, 1934 in Klaten , Java ; † May 22, 2019 in Almelo ) was a Dutch mathematician .
Life
Baayen graduated from high school in Goes in 1951 and studied mathematics and science at the Free University of Amsterdam with a candidate degree in 1954 and the doctoral examination in mathematics in 1957, where he was already teaching at a secondary school in the last year of his studies. From 1957 to 1959 he was at the University of California, Berkeley . He received his doctorate in 1964 under Johannes de Groot (1914–1972) at the University of Amsterdam (Universal Morphisms). He had been at the CWI ( Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica ) since 1959 , where he headed the pure mathematics department from 1965 (group leader), and since 1965 professor at the Free University of Amsterdam, where he had been teaching topology and functional analysis since 1962 .
1966/67 he was visiting professor at the University of Washington .
1980 to 1994 he was director of the CWI in Amsterdam. During this time he initiated and promoted a number of research fields such as cryptography, computer algebra, image analysis, computer linguistics, discrete mathematics, performance analysis and interface technology.
He started out in pure mathematics and later dealt with discrete mathematics and computer science. Alexander Schrijver is one of his doctoral students .
The Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) is named in his honor. Baayen was the first President of the ERCIM from 1991 to 1994. 1978 to 1980 he was chairman of the Wiskundig Genootschap and 1983 to 1985 of the Nederlands Genootschap voor Informatica.
Fonts
- with Jacobus Hendricus van Lint , Johan Jacob Seidel : Colloquium discrete wiskunde, Mathematisch Centrum 1968
literature
- Krzysztof Apt, Lex Schrijver, Nico Temme: From Universal Morphisms to Megabytes: A Baayen Space Odyssey, CWI, Amsterdam 1994
Web links
- Author profile in the database zbMATH
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice for Pieter Cornelis Baayen. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Pieter Cornelis Baayen in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baayen, Pieter Cornelis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baayen, Cor (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klaten , Java |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 2019 |
| Place of death | Almelo |