Jacobus "Koos" Verhoeff (20 February 1927 – 19 March 2018)[3] was a Dutch mathematician, computer scientist, and artist. He is known for his work on error detection and correction, and on information retrieval.[4] He has also held exhibitions of his mathematically inspired sculptures.
Jacobus "Koos" Verhoeff | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 20, 1927 |
| Died | March 19, 2018 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
| Known for | Error detecting codes, Mathematical art |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer science |
| Institutions | Delft University of Technology, Philips, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Thesis | Error Detecting Decimal Codes[1] (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Wouter Peremans |
He is best known for his check-digit Verhoeff algorithm, which is based on the dihedral group of order 10.
His son, Tom Verhoeff, is a mathematician and computer scientist.
Selected publications
edit- Verhoeff, J. (1977). "A New Data Compression Technique". Annals of Systems Research. Vol. 6. Springer US. pp. 139–148. doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-4074-4_8. ISBN 978-90-207-0731-1.
- Verhoeff, Jacobus (1969). Error detecting decimal codes (Ph.D.). Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam.
- Verhoeff, J. (April 1970). "Wiskundige aspecten van het Nederlandse administratienummer voor personen (Mathematical aspects of the Dutch administration number for persons)". Informatie, Maandblad voor Informatieverwerking (in Dutch). 12 (4): 162–169.
- Verhoeff, Jacobus; Goffman, W; Belzer, Jack (1961). "Inefficiency of the use of boolean functions for information retrieval systems". Communications of the ACM. 4 (12). Association for Computing Machinery: 557–558. doi:10.1145/366853.366861. S2CID 10188422.
- Verhoeff, J. (1953). "Recent investigations about the radical of a ring". Rapport ZW. 1953–007. Math. Centrum Amsterdam.
- Verhoeff, J. "On pseudo-convergent sequences". Nederl. Akad. Wetensch. Proc. Ser. A, (Indagationes Math.). 15 (401–404).
References
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Koos Verhoeff.
- ^ "Jacobus Verhoeff - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
- ^ J. Verhoeff at the UvA Album Academicum website.
- ^ Schoonen, Rob (2018-03-22). "Wiskundige en wiskunstenaar Koos Verhoeff overleden (1927-2018)". Eindhovens Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-11-20.
- ^ "Feature Column from the AMS".
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