Anne Sjerp Troelstra | |
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Born | |
Died | 7 March 2019 | (aged 79)
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Amsterdam |
Thesis | Intuitionistic General Topology (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Arend Heyting |
Doctoral students |
Anne Sjerp Troelstra (10 August 1939 – 7 March 2019) was a professor of pure mathematics and foundations of mathematics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam.
He was a constructivist logician, who was influential in the development of intuitionistic logic[1] With Georg Kreisel, he was a developer of the theory of choice sequences.[2] He wrote one of the first texts on linear logic,[3] and, with Helmut Schwichtenberg, he co-wrote an important book on proof theory.[4]
He became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.[5] Troelstra died on 7 March 2019.[6]