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## Preface This issue is dedicated to Jan Bergstra on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday It is difficult to imagine what people in the remote future will think of us. Will they appreciate the scientific literature of the last half century in some way resembling our appreciation of Apollonius of Perga? Or will they see a diffuse decline, a way of life past its term, the end of the age of man, or at least of intelligent man, perhaps the beginning of an era of computer-aided trial and error? If the latter, they may discern in Jan Bergstra one representative of the fading age, who perhaps accepted his increasing irrelevance, but went on thinking nonetheless, since that was what he had trained in, and what he was good at. If, however, Jan will be remembered as a mathematician or computer scientist -and one with a story -it will not be as an ordinary one. Jan Bergstra studied mathematics in Utrecht and wrote a Ph.D. thesis on computability theory for higher type functionals (1976). His work is still referred to in a recent overview [2]. This is the field where he drew his longest solitary furrow. Indeed, one could say that Jan drove a plough into a succession of fields, but he was to

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Author

Inge Bethke; Alban Ponse; Piet H. Rodenburg

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0304-3975)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Computer Science (Physical Sciences)