Marc van Kreveld

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Kreveld, not Kreveld.

Marc Johan van Kreveld is a Dutch computational geometer, known as one of the authors of the textbook Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications (with Mark de Berg, Otfried Cheong, and Mark Overmars, Springer, 1997; 3rd ed., 2008).[1]

Van Kreveld completed his Ph.D. in 1992 at Utrecht University. His dissertation, New Results on Data Structures in Computational Geometry, was supervised by Mark Overmars.[2] He is a professor of computer science at Utrecht University.[3]

With Ferran Hurtado, van Kreveld was co-chair of the 2011 Symposium on Computational Geometry.[4] He has also worked in geographic information systems, and (with Jürg Nievergelt, Thomas Roos, and Peter Widmayer) is the author of the textbook Algorithmic Foundations of Geographic Information Systems (Springer, 1997).

References

  1. ^ Reviews of Computational Geometry:
    • Hecker, Hans-Dietrich (1998), Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03427-9, ISBN 978-3-662-03429-3, MR 1470713, S2CID 45679469{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Giblin, Peter (March 2001), The Mathematical Gazette, 85 (502): 175–176, doi:10.2307/3620533, JSTOR 3620533, S2CID 126002833{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  2. ^ Marc van Kreveld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Prof. dr. M.J. (Marc) van Kreveld, Utrecht University, retrieved 2019-07-31
  4. ^ SoCG program committees, retrieved 2019-07-31