Arto Salomaa: Mathematician, Computer Scientist, and Teacher A Thema
This book outlines the scientific career of Arto Salomaa, a pioneer in theoretical computer science and mathematics. The author first interviewed the subject and his family and collaborators, and he then researched this fascinating biography of an intelle
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Arto Salomaa: Mathematician, Computer Scientist, and Teacher A Thematic Biography
Arto Salomaa: Mathematician, Computer Scientist, and Teacher
Jukka Paakki
Arto Salomaa: Mathematician, Computer Scientist, and Teacher A Thematic Biography
Jukka Paakki Dept. of Computer Science University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland
ISBN 978-3-030-16048-7 ISBN 978-3-030-16049-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16049-4
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Preface
In 2013, I was writing a history of Finnish computer science and interviewed all the key persons in the area. One of them was Arto Salomaa, academician and professor of mathematics at the University of Turku. So, I travelled to Turku and met Arto for the first time ever. This might seem a bit surprising, because Finland is a rather small nation where everyone knows each other, and we both had worked in the same subarea of computer science, namely formal languages. In the twentieth century, the universities in Finland were not yet forced—or supposed—to do cooperation, so we were working almost 200 km apart, Arto mostly in Turku and I mostly in Helsinki. Of course, I knew who Arto was even though I didn’t know him personally. He was the grand old man of Finnish computer science and a legend already in the 1970s when I started my studies at the university. At that time, the number of computer science textbooks was small, and they all seemed to be written by Americans. There was one notable exception, though: the highly valued and widely used textbooks Theory of Automata and Formal Languages wer
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