Axel Thue | |
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Born | |
Died | 7 March 1922 | (aged 59)
Nationality | Norwegian |
Alma mater | University of Kristiania |
Known for | Thue's theorems, Thue systems |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematician |
Institutions |
University of Kristiania Trondheim Technical College |
Thesis | (1889) |
Doctoral advisor | Elling Holst |
Doctoral students | Thoralf Skolem |
Axel Thue (Norwegian: [tʉː]; 19 February 1863 – 7 March 1922) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for his original work in diophantine approximation and combinatorics.
Thue published his first important paper in 1909. [1]
He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem. [2]
His only known PhD student was Thoralf Skolem.
The esoteric programming language Thue is named after him.