Joachim Lambek
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Joachim "Jim" Lambek FRSC (5 December 1922 – 23 June 2014)[2] was a German-born Canadian mathematician. He was Peter Redpath Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University, where he earned his PhD degree in 1950 with Hans Zassenhaus as advisor.
Joachim Lambek | |
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 Joachim Lambek in Philadelphia, May 2008 | |
| Born | December 5, 1922 |
| Died | June 23, 2014 (aged 91) |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Known for | Lambek–Moser theorem, Lambek calculus, Curry–Howard–Lambek correspondence, multicategories |
| Awards | Jeffery–Williams Prize (1988)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Department of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University |
| Thesis | A: Biquaternion Vectorfields over Minkowski's Space B: The Immersibility of a Semigroup into a Group (1950) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Zassenhaus |
| Doctoral students | Israel Kleiner (1967) William Schelter (1972) |