Anne Sjerp Troelstra Explained

Anne Sjerp Troelstra
Birth Date:10 August 1939
Birth Place:Maartensdijk, Utrecht
Death Place:Blaricum
Nationality:Dutch
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Amsterdam
Alma Mater:University of Amsterdam
Thesis Title:Intuitionistic General Topology
Thesis Year:1966
Doctoral Advisor:Arend Heyting
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Anne Sjerp Troelstra (10 August 1939 – 7 March 2019) was a professor of pure mathematics and foundations of mathematics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam.

He was a constructivist logician, who was influential in the development of intuitionistic logic[1] With Georg Kreisel, he was a developer of the theory of choice sequences. He wrote one of the first texts on linear logic, and, with Helmut Schwichtenberg, he co-wrote an important book on proof theory.

He became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.[2] Troelstra died on 7 March 2019.[3]

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  1. http://www.ozsl.uu.nl/MartinLob.html MARTIN LÖB (1921 - 2006)
  2. Web site: Anne Troelstra. https://web.archive.org/web/20160214194705/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/4881. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 14 February 2016. 14 February 2016.
  3. Web site: Anne Troelstra (1939-2019). illc.uva.nl. 13 March 2019.

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