About Imre Simon
Lived 1943 – 2009 (aged 65). Imre Simon was a Brazilian and Hungarian mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher.
Imre Simon (August 14, 1943 – August 13, 2009) was a Hungarian-born Brazilian mathematician and computer scientist.
His research mainly focused on theoretical computer science, automata theory, and tropical mathematics, a subject he founded, and which was so named because he lived in Brazil. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. In 2005, the journal RAIRO-ITA published an issue dedicated to his life and work.
Biography Simon came to Brazil with his parents after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He studied electrical engineering at the University of São Paulo, received his diploma in 1966, and his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in 1972, under Janusz Brzozowski with the thesis: Hierarchies of Events with Dot-Depth One.
He died of lung cancer in São Paulo, Brazil on August 13, 2009, one day before his 66th birthday.
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Who was Imre Simon?
Brazilian mathematician (1943–2009)
When was Imre Simon born?
Imre Simon was born on 14 August 1943 in Budapest.
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Imre Simon died on 13 August 2009 in São Paulo.
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Imre Simon was a mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher.
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Imre Simon was Brazilian and Hungarian.
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