Arto Salomaa

Arto Kustaa Salomaa (6 June 1934 – 28 January 2025) was a Finnish mathematician and computer scientist.  His research career focused on formal languages and automata theory. 

In 1965, Salomaa became a professor of mathematics at the University of Turku. He retired from there in 1999. He also spent two years in the late 1960s at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, and two years in the 1970s at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark..

Salomaa died on 28 January 2025 at the age of 90.

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