Joachim Lambek

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Joachim Lambek (born Dec 1922) is Peter Redpath Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1950. He is called Jim by his friends.

He is noted, among other things, for the Lambek calculus, an effort to capture mathematical aspects of natural language syntax in logical form and a work that has been very influential in computational linguistics. He is currently working on pregroup grammar.

[edit] Bibliography

• Lambek, J. (1958), "The Mathematics of Sentence Structure", American Mathematical Monthly 65, 154–170.

• Lambek, J., and Scott, P.J. (1986), Introduction to Higher Order Categorical Logic, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

[edit] External links

• Faculty profile of Joachim Lambek at McGill University.

• Lambek festival (80th annivarsary) [1]