Education
Dekker completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1958.
mathematician university professor
Dekker completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1958.
His thesis was titled "Paradoxical Decompositions of Sets and Spaces". Dekker invented an algorithm that allows two processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication, named Dekker"s algorithm.