Jan Kok (CWI, Amsterdam)

 

Welcome to my HoPa.   To [Professional] [and other interests] and [Onward connections]

Name: Jan Kok CWI Departments: As of 1st October 2008 I am retired. Information on this home page might be obsolete.

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Key words for other pages (follow links): Mathematisch Centrum, MC, history of MC, NUMAL library, CWI, shallow water, HPCN, TASC project, TASC symposium, SIGAda Numerics WG, classic literature on mathematics, polyomino, tromino, tetromino, pentomino, hexomino, tetracube, pentacube, hexiamond, my Trijntje Fop (Kees Stip, 25 August 1913 - 27 June 2001) page, laws, ice skating
This page's background shows a tiling of the infinite plane that is a proof without words of the Pythagorean Theorem (Theorem of Pythagoras). So does Jacob Ochtervelt's painting Street musicians at the door (1665).

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Professional ...

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Links, projects:

• CWI webmaster:
  for information about webmaster responsibilities and questions, please check the ITF (Department)'s home page at helpdesk.cwi.nl
• MAS (CWI's Cluster of Modelling, Analysis and Simulation)
• My publications
• Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Numerical Analysis Community
• WSC website (website of 'Werkgemeenschap Scientific Computing', formerly WNW, the Dutch Numerical Analysis Community)
• I have been a member of WG9's (Ada) Numerics Rapporteur Group and corresponding member of the SIGAda Numerics Working Group
  (and also of Ada-Europe)

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... and other interests

A Trijntje Fop style poem for you:

See my Trijntje Fop page for some exegesis

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Various subjects for further reading (or viewing)

• Is CWI in some way related to the Mathematisch Centrum?
• Some recollections about the history of the Mathematisch Centrum
• The NUMAL (1973 - 1979) library : Preamble to the copy of the NUMAL manual on the Numerical Recipes CDROM
• Can one fill a given rectangular box with the twelve different (solid) pentominoes?
• Collection of Laws
• Ice Skating? From October till the first week of March every Monday during lunch hour at the Jaap Edenbaan, assemble at 11:45 in the CWI lobby (except when in real winter time we can skate on canals and lakes every day).
  About the 1996 winter season, see my Photo Gallery and Stamp Collection.
  (Elfstedentocht? See Vereniging "De Friesche Elf Steden")
• My home page in morse code (version of February 1999)

• Classics:

  • Euclid
• Visit Amsterdam? See Steven's Amsterdam page

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Onward connections:

To CWI's Home Page
To MAS
Conference of the Dutch and Flemish Communities of Numerical Mathematicians (Woudschoten conference): see WSC site
To WSC website
To

my personal information

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