Mathematician:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer

Mathematician
Dutch mathematician working in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.

Founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.

Nationality
Dutch

History

 * Born: 27 Feb 1881, Overschie (now a suburb of Rotterdam), Netherlands
 * Died: 2 Dec 1966 in Blaricum, Netherlands

Theorems and Definitions

 * Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
 * Brouwer-Heyting-Kolmogorov Interpretation (with, independently of )
 * Brouwerian Lattice

Publications

 * 1923: On the significance of the principle of excluded middle in mathematics, especially in function theory
 * 1927: On the domains of definition of functions
 * 1927: Intuitionistic reflections on formalism


 * 1935: Founder of.

Also known as
Known to his friends as Bertus.