Meertens is a Dutch
patronymic surname (son of Meerten/
Maarten). It may refer to:
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Jacques Meertens (born 1948), Dutch clarinetist
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Lambert Meertens
Lambert Guillaume Louis Théodore Meertens or L.G.L.T. Meertens (born 10 May 1944, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor. , he is a researcher at the Kestrel Institute, a nonprofit computer science research center in Palo Alt ...
(born 1944), Dutch computer scientist
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Bird–Meertens formalism The Bird–Meertens formalism (BMF) is a calculus for deriving programs from specifications (in a functional-programming setting) by a process of equational reasoning. It was devised by Richard Bird and Lambert Meertens as part of their work with ...
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Meertens number In number theory and mathematical logic, a Meertens number in a given number base b is a natural number that is its own Gödel number. It was named after Lambert Meertens by Richard S. Bird as a present during the celebration of his 25 years at th ...
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Piet Meertens
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens (Middelburg (Zeeland), Middelburg, 6 September 1899 – Amstelveen, 28 October 1985) was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology. He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut ...
(1899–1985), Dutch dialectologist and ethnologist
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Meertens Institute, research institute for
Dutch language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-Europea ...
and culture
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Mertens () is a surname of Flemish Origin, meaning "son of Merten" (Martin). It is the fifth most common name in Belgium with 18,518 people in 2008.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 43.4% of all known bearers of the surname ''Merte ...
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Dutch-language surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names