Biography:Robert McNaughton

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Short description: American mathematician

Robert Forbes McNaughton, Jr. (1924–2014) was an American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist with several key contributions in formal languages, grammars and rewriting systems, and word combinatorics.[1]

McNaughton was originally from Brooklyn, and earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University.[1] He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University; his dissertation, On Establishing the Consistency of Systems, was supervised by Willard Van Orman Quine.[2] He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[1]

He died in 2014 in Troy, New York.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Obituary Robert McNaughton 1924 – 2014", Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science 114, October 2014, https://bulletin.eatcs.org/index.php/beatcs/article/view/309 
  2. Robert McNaughton at the Mathematics Genealogy Project