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John Tromp is a Dutch computer scientist. He formerly worked for Dutch Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science. Tromp discovered the number of legal states of the board game Go, and co-authored with Bill Taylor the Tromp-Taylor Rules, which they call "the logical rules of Go".

He is also known for Binary combinatory logic (Binary lambda calculus).

References

1. ^ Shotwell, Peter (2016). "John Tromp and the Big Numbers of Go: The Possible Positions, Games and the Longest" (PDF). American Go Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2019.
2. ^ Johnson, Leif (25 January 2016). "After 2,500 Years, a Chinese Gaming Mystery is Solved". Vice.com. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
3. "1995 edition of Tromp-Taylor Rules". 13 February 1995. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
4. "1996 edition of Tromp-Taylor Rules". Retrieved 30 December 2017.
5. "The Rules of Go". American Go Association. Retrieved 30 December 2017.

External links

• John Tromp's homepage at GitHub
• John Tromp's entry on the Chess Programming Wiki

• Living people
• Dutch computer scientists