Education
He gained his Doctor of Philosophy from Utrecht University in 1957 under the supervision of Fred van der Blij.
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He gained his Doctor of Philosophy from Utrecht University in 1957 under the supervision of Fred van der Blij.
He was professor of mathematics at Eindhoven University of Technology from 1959 to 1997. He was appointed a full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology at the age of 26 years. His field of research was initially number theory, but he worked mainly in combinatorics and coding theory.
Van Lint was honored with a great number of awards.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Royal Dutch Mathematical Society.