Overview
- First biography of the renowned German computer scientist Carl Adam Petri
- Contains an entertaining and easily understandable introduction to Petri nets and their foundations
- Presents hitherto unpublished background material from Petri's legacy
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Authors and Affiliations
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Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft SCAI – , Sankt Augustin, Germany
Einar Smith
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Einar Smith
Graduation in mathematics and computer science, University of Bonn; social economy, University of Oslo. PhD dissertation in computer science 1989, University of Hamburg. From 1984 affiliated with the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD, German National Center for Mathematics and Computer Science), later Fraunhofer Insitute, Sankt Augustin near Bonn, research field Petri nets. From 1989 lecture activities on Petri nets and theoretical computer science at the Univesities of Koblenz, Berlin (Humboldt-University) and Campina Grande, Brazil. Lecture activities on applied mathematics at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn. Author of a text-book on the Theory of Computability, Springer-Verlag 1996.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Carl Adam Petri
Book Subtitle: Life and Science
Authors: Einar Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48093-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-48092-2Published: 11 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51683-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-48093-9Published: 30 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 128
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Computing, Mathematics, general, Philosophy, general, Theory of Computation