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Prof. Leo
Depuydt
Background and Education
l was born
and grew up in the region of Flanders in Belgium
l studied
ancient Greek, Roman and Near Eastern languages and civilizations at (in
chronological order) the Catholic University of Leuven, the Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the
Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen
l between
Jerusalem and Tübingen served for eight months in the Belgian military, some in
(West) Germany, and rounded off that year by working and living at a
Benedictine abbey in Bruges
l did
doctoral study at Yale (1989--1990)
l taught
as a Senior Lector in Coptic and Syriac at Yale (1989–1991)
l has
been at Brown since 1991
l has
authored, or co-authored as editor, eleven books and written about one hundred
and forty articles and about forty scholarly reviews on topics relating to
ancient and medieval manuscripts, languages, and history, with primary focus on
ancient Egyptian civilization.
Education and Training
MA. Yale
University 1987
PhD. Yale
University 1990
Awards and Honors
Wriston
Grant for Excellence in Teaching, Brown University, Summer 1994
Grant
from the Faculty Development Fund ($1000), Brown University, 1991
Fulbright
Exchange Scholar (Belgium to U.S.A.), 1985–90
Whiting
Prize Fellowship, Yale University, 1988–89
John
F. Enders Prize Fellowship, Yale University, 1988
Bibliographical
Society of America Fellowship, 1988
Aylwin
Cotton Foundation Award, United Kingdom, 1988
University
Fellowship, Yale University, 1987–88
Josephine
de Kármán Fellowship, 1987
Julian
J. Obermann Fellowship, Yale University, 1986–87
Grants
from Middlebury College and Yale University for Arabic Course at Middlebury,
Summer 1986
University
Fellowship, Yale University, 1985–86
Council
of Europe Higher Education Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst,
1984–85
Government
of Israel Scholarship, 1982–83
Dissertation
Award, Belgian Ministry of Education, 1982–83
Helen
H. Scheuer Fellowship, Hebrew Union College, 1981–82
Student
Travel Grants: Yale Endowment for Egyptology (1986, 1987); Fulbright (1986);
Vlaamse Leergangen, Louvain (1984)
William
J. Horwitz Prize, "For Continuous Excellence and Distinction,"
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, 1990
Dissertation
passed with Distinction, Yale University, 1990
Finalist,
Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1988
Comprehensive
exams on Egyptology, Coptic Studies, and Christian Arabic passed with Distinction,
Yale University, May 1987
Highest
Score, Arabic Summer Course, Middlebury College, Summer 1986
Laureate,
Latin–Greek Humanities (high school), 1975
Publications
(selected)
l "The
Monty Hall Problem and beyond: Digital-mathematical and Cognitive Analysis in
Boole's Algebra, Including an Extension and Generalization to Related
Cases," _Advances in Pure Mathematics_ 1/4 (2011), 136-154 (go to:
www.scirp.org/journal/apm; http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/apm.2011.14027).
l "Higher
Variations of the Monty Hall Problem (3.0, 4.0) and Empirical Definition of the
Phenomenon of Mathematics, in Boole's Footsteps, as Something the Brain
Does," _Advances in Pure Mathematics_, 2/4 (2012), 243-273 (go to:
www.scirp.org/journal/apm; http://dx.doi.org./10.4236/apm.2012.24034).
l "To
Comma or Not to Comma: The Mathematics of the Relative Clause, All Types, via
Boole and Venn," _International Journal of Intelligence Science_, 1/2
(2012), 106-114 (go to www.scirp.org/journal/ijis;
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ijis.2012.24015).
l "The
Mathematical and Physical Theory of Rational Human Intelligence: Complete
Empirical Digital Properties; Full Macroelectrochemical Biological Model (I:
Mathematical Foundations)," _Advances in Pure Mathematics_, 3/5 (2013),
491-561 (go to www.scirp.org/journal/apm;
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/apm.2013.35071; also
file.scirp.org/Html/9-5300472_3606.htm).
l "The
Prime Sequence: Demonstrably Highly Organized While Also Opaque and
Incomputable--With Remarks on Riemann's Hypothesis, Partition, Goldbach's
Conjecture, Euclid on Primes, Euclid's Fifth Postulate, Wilson's Theorem along
with Lagrange's Proof of It and Pascal's Triangle, and Rational Human
Intelligence," _Advances in Pure Mathematics_, 4/8 (2014), 400-466 (go to
www.scirp.org/journal/apm; http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/apm.2014.48051).
Affiliation
Memberships
in Learned Societies:
American Friends of the École Biblique in Jerusalem (1996–2001)
American Oriental Society (1991– )
American Research Center in Egypt (1986– )
Association of Ancient Historians (2001– )
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) (1998– )
International Association of Armenian Studies (1991– )
International Association of Coptic Studies (1984– )
International Association of Egyptology (1985– )
International Association of Nubian Studies (1998– )
New York Academy of Sciences (1996–1997)
New York Egyptological Seminar (1996–2001)
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