Mathematician:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
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Mathematician
Dutch mathematician working in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.
Beginning in $1912$, 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 Arend Heyting, independently of Andrey Kolmogorov)
- Brouwerian Lattice
Results named for Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer can be found here.
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 Compositio Mathematica.
Also known as
Known to his friends as Bertus.
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881-1966)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881-1966)
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881-1966)