Dutch mathematician

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

Dekker completed his Ph.D. degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1958. His thesis was *led "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.

References

• Prof. dr. T.J. Dekker, 1927 - at the University of Amsterdam Album Academi* website

External links

• The Mathematics Genealogy Project entry for T. J. Dekker