Theodorus Jozef Dekker (Dirk Dekker, 1 March 1927 - 25 November 2021) was a Dutch

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

. Dekker completed his Ph.D. degree from the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

in 1958. His thesis was titled "Paradoxical Decompositions of Sets and Spaces". Dekker invented an algorithm that allows two processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication, named

Dekker's algorithm Dekker's algorithm is the first known correct solution to the mutual exclusion problem in concurrent programming where processes only communicate via shared memory. The solution was attributed to Dutch people, Dutch mathematician Theodorus Dekker, ...

References

Prof. dr. T.J. Dekker, 1927 -
at the

''Album Academicum'' website

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dekker, Theodorus 1927 births 2021 deaths Dutch mathematicians University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam People from Heerhugowaard