%0 Book %T Arto Salomaa: mathematician, computer scientist, and teacher : a thematic biography %A Paakki, Jukka %D 2019 %I Springer Nature Switzerland AG %C Cham %@ 9783030160494 %G English %F 1751016404 %O Jukka Paakki %O Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources %X Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Professor´s Son -- (Great) Grandparents -- Jalmari Salomaa, Father and Professor -- Aili Salomaa, Mother and Volunteer -- Sirkka Salomaa, Sister and Headmistress -- Pentti Salomaa, Brother and Professor -- Salomaa Coat of Arms: From Possibility to Reality -- Child and Youngster in Turku, Finland -- Brahenkatu and Albatross -- The Skeleton Gang -- Primary Schools and the Classic -- Master and Doctor of Science -- The American Wonderland 1956-1957 -- The Thesis on Many-Valued Logic -- Family Man -- Master of Many-Valued Logic -- n-Valued Sheffer Functions -- Prehistory of Automata and Formal Languages -- Father of Formal Languages -- The Turku School -- Algebra of Regular Expressions -- Probabilistic Automata -- Western Ontario, Canada -- Theory of Automata -- Formal Languages -- Jewels of Formal Language Theory -- Books, Books, Books -- Champion of L -- Tarzan and Bolgani -- Growth Functions -- The Mathematical Theory of L Systems -- Aarhus, Denmark -- President of EATCS -- Turku ICALP -- Mister President -- MSW -- Prizes Named After Great Mathematicians -- Master of Formal Power Series -- The French School -- Automata-Theoretic Aspects of Formal Power Series -- Semirings, Automata, Languages -- Waterloo, Canada -- Champion of Cryptography -- Pioneer of Finnish Cryptography -- Computerized Ballots -- Invasion of Romanians -- Public-Key Cryptography -- Master of Biocomputing -- DNA Computing -- Membrane Computing -- Genetic Computing -- Reaction Systems -- Academician, One of the Twelve -- A Man´s Age -- Formal Conferral of Degrees -- Retirement -- Academician -- All-Round Grand Champion -- Handbook of Formal Languages -- Computational Complexity -- Slender Languages -- Parallel Grammars -- Parikh Matrices -- State Complexity of Automata -- Yesterday Once More: Many-Valued Logics. %L 510.92 %K Mathematicians-Finland-Biography %K Salomaa, Arto %K Electronic books %9 Text %U https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5928963