Mathematician:Axel Thue

Mathematician

Norwegian mathematician, known for his original work in diophantine approximation and combinatorics.

Nationality

Norwegian

History

• Born: 19 February 1863 in Tönsberg, Norway
• Died: 7 March 1922 in Oslo, Norway

Theorems and Definitions

• Thue System
• Semi-Thue System
• Thue-Morse Sequence (with Harold Calvin Marston Morse)
• Thue-Siegel-Roth Theorem (with Carl Ludwig Siegel and Klaus Friedrich Roth)
• Thue Equation
• Thue Programming Language
• Thue's Theorem
• Thue Problem (also known as the Word Problem for Semigroups)

Results named for Axel Thue can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Axel Thue can be found here.

Publications

• 1906: Über unendliche Zeichenreihen
• 1909: Über Annäherungswerte algebraischer Zahlen (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 135: pp. 284 – 305)
• 1910: Die Lösung eines Spezialfalles eines generellen logischen Problems
• 1912: Über die gegenseitige Lage gleicher Teile gewisser Zeichenreihen
• 1914: Probleme über Veränderungen von Zeichenreihen nach gegebenen Regeln

• 1916 -- 1922: Editor of Acta Mathematica

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Axel Thue": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive