Lawrence Neff Stout, Professor of Mathematics, was an admired teacher, scholar, colleague and mentor. His research focused on category theory, fuzzy logic, other non-classical logics, and in the philosophy of mathematics. He earned his A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1970 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1974. In 2011, he received the second annual James Dougan Award for Faculty Governance in recognition of his dedication to service. The Lawrence Neff Stout Scholarship for Excellence in Mathematics has been established to honor his memory. He will be greatly missed by his students, faculty colleagues and friends in the community.
Articles
A Categorical Semantics for Fuzzy Predicate Logic, Fuzzy Sets and Systems (2010)
The object of this study is to look at categorical approaches to many valued logic,...
Categorical Approaches to Non-Commutative Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Sets and Systems (2010)
In this paper we consider what it means for a logic to be non-commutative, how...
When Does a Category Built on a Lattice with a Monoidal Structure have a Monoidal Structure?, Fuzzy Sets and Systems (2010)
In a word, sometimes. And it gets harder if the structure on L is not...
Finiteness Notions in Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Sets and Systems (2001)
Finite sets are one of the most fundamental mathematical structures. In the absence of the...
Books
Linear Algebra (2011)
This book is designed to deal with all of the concepts of linear algebra first...
Contributions to Books
Recursion, Infinity, and Modeling (with Hans-Jorg Tiede), Recursion and Human Language (2010)
Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch (2002) claim that a core property of the human language faculty...
Paradigms for Non-classical Substitutions (with P. Eklund, M. A. Galan, and J. Kortelainen), 39th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (2009)
We will present three paradigms for non-classical substitution. Firstly, we have the classical substitution of...
Categories of Fuzzy Sets with Values in a Quantale or Projectale, Non-Classical Logics and their Applications to Fuzzy Subsets: A Handbook of the Mathematical Foundations of Fuzzy Set Theory (Theory and Decision Library B) (1995)
Properties of the lattice L are reflected in the properties of the categories Set(L), Set(L)/(A,α),...
The Logic of Unbalanced Subobjects in a Category with Two Closed Structures, Applications of Category Theory to Fuzzy Subsets (1992)
Unpublished Papers
How to Study Mathematics (2011)
In high school mathematics much of your time was spent learning algorithms and manipulative techniques...
Sequences, Series, and Function Approximation (2006)
Sequences are important in approximation: the usual representation of real numbers using decimals is in...