About Dick de Jongh
Born 1939. Dick de Jongh is a Dutch mathematician, philosopher and linguist.
Dick Herman Jacobus de Jongh (born 19 October 1939, Enschede) is a Dutch logician and mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD degree in 1968 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under supervision of Stephen Kleene with a dissertation titled Investigations on the Intuitionistic Propositional Calculus. De Jongh is mostly known for his work on proof theory, provability logic and intuitionistic logic. De Jongh is a member of the group collectively publishing under the pseudonym L. T. F. Gamut. In
2004, on the occasion of his retirement, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam published a festschrift in his honor.
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Who is Dick de Jongh?
Dutch mathematician
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Dick de Jongh was born on 19 October 1939 in Enschede.
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Dick de Jongh is a mathematician, philosopher and linguist.
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Dick de Jongh is Dutch.
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