Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1881–1966) was a Dutch mathematician, philosopher and topologist.
Also recorded as LEJ Brouwer; L. E. J. Brouwer; L.E.J. Brouwer; Luitzen Brouwer.
Overview
Born at Overschie in 1881, died at Blaricum in 1966.
In detail
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer studied at University of Amsterdam. training under Gerrit Mannoury is recorded. Arend Heyting is recorded as having studied under Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer. the recorded working language is Dutch and English.
The field of work recorded is mathematical analysis, mathematical logic and set theory. Immanuel Kant is recorded as an influence.
Employment is recorded with University of Amsterdam. Membership is recorded of Royal Society, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and German Academy of Sciences at Berlin.
Works named in the authority record are Brouwer–Hilbert controversy, Brouwer fixed-point theorem, Brouwer–Haemers graph, Phragmen–Brouwer theorem, Brouwer–Heyting–Kolmogorov interpretation and Kleene–Brouwer order.
Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
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