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Juhani Karhumäki

Juhani Karhumäki is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Juhani Karhumäki rather than just read about it. In short: Eero Urho Juhani Karhumäki (born 1949) is a Finnish mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to automata theory. He is a professor at the University of Turku in southwestern Finland.

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Reference excerpt

Eero Urho Juhani Karhumäki (born 1949) is a Finnish mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to automata theory. He is a professor at the University of Turku in southwestern Finland.

Biography Karhumäki earned his doctorate from the University of Turku in 1976. In 1980–1985, he was a junior researcher of Academy of Finland. Since 1986, he has held teaching positions at the University of Turku, attaining full professorship in 1998. In 1998–2015, Karhumäki was the head of the mathematics department at the University of Turku. He has authored altogether around 200 research papers. Karhumäki is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2000 and of Academia Europaea since 2006. A festschrift in his honour was published in 2009 as a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.

Research contributions Karhumäki has been a member of the Lothaire group of mathematicians that developed the foundations of combinatorics of words. In 1991, jointly with Tero Harju, he solved the long-standing equivalence problem for multitape finite automata in automata theory. Karhumäki contributed to different areas of formal language theory, such as word equations, language equations and descriptional complexity of finite automata.

References

External links Juhani Karhumäki at DBLP Bibliography Server Juhani Karhumäki at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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In the classroom: Juhani Karhumäki is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1949 births, Finnish computer scientists, Finnish mathematicians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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