Prof. Leo Depuydt

Brown University, USA

Professor

Email: depuydt@juno.com

Qualifications

1990 Ph.D., Yale University, United States, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

1981 M.A., Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, Oriental Philology

1979 B.S., Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, Classical Philology

Publications (Selected)

1. 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. With an Appendix by Richard D. Gill. Advances in Pure Mathematics (peer-reviewed open access journal published by Scientific Research Publishing [http://www.scirp.org/journal/apm]; doi of article: 10.4236/apm.2012.24034; published in pdf, html, epub, and hard copy), vol. 2, no. 4: 243–273.
2. Why Greek Lunar Months Began a Day Later than Egyptian Lunar Months, Both before First Visibility of the New Crescent. In Living the Lunar Calendar, ed. Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, and John M. Steele. Pp. 119–71. Oxford: Oxbow.
3. To Comma or Not to Comma: The Mathematics of the Relative Clause, All Types, via Boole and Venn. International Journal of Intelligence Science (peer-reviewed open access journal published by Scientific Research Publishing; doi: 104236/ijis.2012.24015; http://www.scirp.org/journal/ijis; also published in print), vol. 2, no. 4: 106–114.
4. Calendar, Ancient Near East. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, First edition, ed. Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craig B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Hueber. Pp. 1255–1258. Blackwell Publishing.
5. No. A231273 (rational component of the numerator of a close variant of Euler’s infinite prime product p^2n/p^(2n)–1, with all minus changed into plus, as follows: p^2n/p^(2n)+1) and No. A231327 (denominator of a close variant of Euler’s infinite prime product p^2n/p^2n–1, namely with all minus changed into plus, as follows: p^2n/p^(2n)+1). In The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (go to www.oeis.org, search for “A231273,” “A231327,” or “Depuydt”).
6. The Alleged Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: Assessment and Evaluation. Harvard Theological Review (Cambridge University Press) 107: 172–189.
7. The Demoticity of Latest Late Egyptian. In Acts of the Tenth International Congress of Demotic Studies, Leuven, 26–30 August 2008, ed. Mark Depauw and Yanne Broux. Pp. 27–42. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 231. Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies.
8. The Morphology and Syntax of a Demotic Debt Construction. In Mélanges offerts à Ola El-Aguizy, ed. Fayza Haikal. Pp. 1–11. Bibliothèque d’Étude 164. Cairo: Institut français d’Archéologie orientale.
9. The Literature of the Copts and the Contributions of Monsignor Hyvernat to the Study of the Subject (Fourth Annual Henri Hyvernat Lecture). Advances in Historical Studies (open access journal published by Scientific Research Publishing http://www.scirp.org/ahs; http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ahs.2015.44022; also published in print),vol. 4: 320–335.
10. The Regnal Years of the “Mathematical Astronomical” Demotic Papyrus Carlsberg 9 Reinterpreted. In Rich and Great: Studies in Honour of Anthony J. Spalinger on the Occasion of his 70th Feast of Thoth, ed. Renata Landgráfová and Jana Mynáøová. Pp. 39–60. Prague: Charles University Faculty of Arts.
11. On Fuzzy Boundaries and Razor Sharp Boundaries, and Something on Bari. [Review article of Fs. Loprieno.] Bibliotheca Orientalis 74: 5–45.
12. A New Verb Form in Coptic. In From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton, ed. David Brakke, Stephen J. Davis, and Stephen Emmel. Pp. 213–44. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 263. Leuven, Paris, Bristol, CT: Peeters.
13. The Calendars and the Year-counts of Ancient Egypt. Chronique d’Égypte (Brussels) 92: 271–294.
14. The Science and Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians: A Synopsis. Bibliotheca Orientalis (Leiden) 74: 472–489.
15. Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing in Boole’s, Saussure’s, and Maxwell’s Footsteps. In Dialogue of Four Pristine Writing Systems, ed. Kuang Yu Chen, Dietrich Tschanz, and Ching-Tu. Pp. 65–81. Confucius Institute of Rutgers University
16. Contrastive jw.jr, Conditional jw.jr, Temporal jw.jr: On Separating a Grammatical Siamese Triplet. Chronique d’Égypte (Brussels) 94: 5–48.