Joachim Lambek
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Joachim "Jim" Lambek FRSC (5 December 1922 – 23 June 2014)[2] was a 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.
Canadian mathematician (1922–2014)
Joachim Lambek | |
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![]() Joachim Lambek in Philadelphia, May 2008 | |
Born | (1922-12-05)December 5, 1922 |
Died | June 23, 2014(2014-06-23) (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) |