Axel Thue (1863 to 1922) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his original work in diophantine approximation and combinatorics. He was born on February 19, 1863, and died on March 7, 1922. He published his first important paper in 1909, on approximation of algebraic numbers, and in 1914 he stated the word problem for semigroups, now called the Thue problem and closely related to the halting problem. His only known PhD student was Thoralf Skolem. Several results carry his name, among them the Thue equation, Thue's lemma, the Thue number, semi-Thue systems and the Thue-Morse sequence, and the esoteric programming language Thue is named after him. His private archive is held at the NTNU University Library.
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