Imre Simon (August 14, 1943 – August 13, 2009) was a
Hungarian-born
Brazilian
mathematician and
computer scientist
A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science.
Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
.
His research mainly focused on theoretical computer science,
automata theory, and
tropical mathematics
In mathematics, tropical geometry is the study of polynomials and their geometric properties when addition is replaced with minimization and multiplication is replaced with ordinary addition:
: x \oplus y = \min\,
: x \otimes y = x + y.
So fo ...
, a subject he founded, and which was so named because he lived in Brazil. He was a professor of mathematics at the
University of São Paulo in Brazil. He was also actively interested in questions of intellectual property and collaborative work, and was an enthusiastic advocate for open collaborative information systems, of which
Wikipedia is an example.
Simon came to Brazil with his parents after the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He studied electrical engineering in Sao Paulo (with Tomasz Kowaltowski), received his diploma in 1966, and his Ph.D. at the
University of Waterloo in 1972, under
Janusz Brzozowski with the thesis: ''Hierarchies of Events with Dot-Depth One''.
Published works
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He died of lung cancer in São Paulo, Brazil on August 13, 2009, aged 65 just a day short of his 66th birthday.
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Personal home page
Brazilian computer scientists
Hungarian emigrants to Brazil
20th-century Brazilian mathematicians
2009 deaths
1943 births
Deaths from lung cancer in Brazil
Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
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