Theodorus Dekker
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Dr. Theodorus Jozef Dekker is a Dutch mathematician.
Dekker completed his Ph.D degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1958, with his paper 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.
