Marc Voorhoeve (5 April 1950,
Amsterdam
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– 7 October 2011,
Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,[Voorhoeve index In mathematics, the Voorhoeve index is a non-negative real number associated with certain Function (mathematics), functions on the complex numbers, named after Marc Voorhoeve. It may be used to extend Rolle's theorem from real functions to complex f ...]
of a
complex function
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in 1976.
Marc studied at the
University of Leiden
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...
where he wrote a thesis on
exponential polynomial
In mathematics, exponential polynomials are functions on fields, rings, or abelian groups that take the form of polynomials in a variable and an exponential function.
Definition In fields
An exponential polynomial generally has both a variable ' ...
s.
The Voorhoeve index is a result from this work.
He then worked at
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
The (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research centre in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Cou ...
and at ''Philips Data Systems'',
a division of
Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters i ...
that manufactured minicomputers.
From 1985 to 2011, he was assistant professor in
Kees van Hee
Kees Max van Hee (born 1946) is a Dutch computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, known for his development of the process modelling tool ExSpecT, and his seminal work on workflow management.
Biograph ...
's group at
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...
, which specialized in
business process modeling
Business process modeling (BPM) in business process management and systems engineering is the activity of process modeling, representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current business processes may be analyzed, improved, and automated. B ...
techniques based on sound mathematical principles, in particular
Petri net
A Petri net, also known as a place/transition (PT) net, is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems. It is a class of discrete event dynamic system. A Petri net is a directed bipartite graph that ...
s and
process algebra
In computer science, the process calculi (or process algebras) are a diverse family of related approaches for formally modelling concurrent systems. Process calculi provide a tool for the high-level description of interactions, communications, and ...
.
[, link from ]University of Augsburg
The University of Augsburg (german: Universität Augsburg) is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 8 Faculties.
The University of Augsburg is a relatively you ...
Publications
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See also
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Petersen's theorem
In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, Petersen's theorem, named after Julius Petersen, is one of the earliest results in graph theory and can be stated as follows:
Petersen's Theorem. Every cubic, bridgeless graph contains a perfect m ...
References
External links
Home page at TU/e*
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1950 births
2011 deaths
20th-century Dutch mathematicians
21st-century Dutch mathematicians
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Scientists from Amsterdam