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”, The American Mathematical Monthly 65: 154–170, ISSN 0002-9890, <http://worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/1480361?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fjournals%2F00029890.html&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail=> 
• Lambek, J. & Scott, P.J. (1986), Introduction to Higher Order Categorical Logic, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-35653-4 
• Lambek, J. (2008), English in pregroup Grammar, under publication 

[edit] See also

• Lambek-Moser theorem

[edit] External links

• Joachim Lambek at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Faculty profile of Joachim Lambek at McGill University

• An appreciation of Jim Lambek at McGill by Michael Barr (a biographical talk given on the occasion of his 75th birthday)

• Lambek festival (80th annivarsary)