Jean-Paul Delahaye (born 29 June 1952 in

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) is a French computer scientist and

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Career

Delahaye has been a professor of computer science at the Lille University of Science and Technology since 1988 and a researcher in the school's computer sciences lab since 1983. Since 1991 he has written a monthly column in Pour la Science, the French version of Scientific American, dealing with mathematical games and recreations, logic, and computer science. He is a contributing author of the online scientific journal Interstices and a science and mathematics advisor to the

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. Delahaye won the 1998 d'Alembert prize from the

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for his books and articles popularizing mathematics, especially for the book ''Le fascinant nombre Pi''.

Works

* * ''Formal Methods in Artificial Intelligence'', North-Oxford Academic, 1987, * ''Le fascinant nombre pi'', Paris: Bibliothèque Pour la Science, 1997,

References

External links

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Jean-Paul Delahaye at the Mathematics Genealogy ProjectJean-Paul Delahaye's home page
French mathematicians French logicians French computer scientists Recreational mathematicians Mathematics popularizers Combinatorial game theorists University of Paris alumni 1952 births Living people Lille University of Science and Technology alumni French male non-fiction writers {{France-mathematician-stub