Jacobus "Koos" Verhoeff (20 February 1927 – 19 March 2018) was a Dutch mathematician, computer scientist, and artist. He is known for his work on error detection and correction, and on information retrieval.
He has also held exhibitions of his mathematically inspired sculptures.
He is best known for his check-digit
Verhoeff algorithm The Verhoeff algorithm is a checksum formula for error detection developed by the Dutch mathematician Jacobus Verhoeff and was first published in 1969. It was the first decimal check digit algorithm which detects all single-digit errors, and all ...
, which is based on the
dihedral group of order 10.
His son,
Tom Verhoeff, is a mathematician and computer scientist.
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1927 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Dutch mathematicians
Dutch computer scientists
Erasmus University Rotterdam faculty
University of Amsterdam alumni
Scientists from The Hague
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