Template:Short description Template:Otheruses Template:Infobox scientist Axel Thue ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 19 February 1863 – 7 March 1922) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for his original work in diophantine approximation and combinatorics.

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Thue published his first important paper in 1909.<ref name=Bio>Template:MacTutor Biography</ref>

He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem.<ref>Ronald V. Book and Friedrich Otto, String-rewriting Systems, Springer, 1993, Template:Isbn, p. 36.</ref>

His only known PhD student was Thoralf Skolem.

The esoteric programming language Thue is named after him.

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