Mathematician:Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn

Mathematician

Dutch mathematician known for his contributions to analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.

Nationality

Dutch

History

• Born: 9 July 1918, The Hague, Netherlands
• Died: 17 February 2012, Nuenen

Theorems and Definitions

• De Bruijn Sequence
• De Bruijn-Newman Constant (with Charles Michael Newman)
• De Bruijn-Erdős Theorem (with Paul Erdős)
• BEST Theorem (with Tatyana Pavlovna van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, Cedric Austen Bardell Smith and William Thomas Tutte)
• De Bruijn Indices

Publications

• 1940: On Steiner-Schläfli's Hypocycloid
• 1941: Ein Satz über Schlichte Funktionen
• 1943: Common Representative Systems of Two Divisions of an Aggregate into Classes
• 1943: Over Modulaire Vormen van meer Veranderlijken
• 1943: On the Absolute Convergence of Dirichlet Series
• 1943: On the Number of Solutions of the System ...
• 1943: Almost Periodic Multiplicative Functions
• 1946: The Problem of Optimum Antenna Current Distribution
• 1946: A Combinatorial Problem (Proceedings of the Section of Sciences Vol. 49, no. 7: pp. 758 – 764)
• 1946: On the Zeros of a Polynomial and of its Derivative
• 1946: A Note on van der Pol's Equation
• 1947: The Electrostatic Field of a Point Charge inside a Cylinder, in Connection with Wave Guide Theory (with C J Bouwkamp)

• 1958: Asymptotic Methods in Analysis
  • 1961: Asymptotic Methods in Analysis, 2nd ed.
  • 1970: Asymptotic Methods in Analysis, 3rd ed.

• 1970: The Mathematical Language AUTOMATH, its Usage, and some of its Extensions
• 1972: Lambda Calculus Notation with Nameless Dummies, a tool for Automatic Formula Manipulation, with Application to the Church-Rosser Theorem (Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings) Vol. 75, no. 5)

Also known as

Known to friends and close associates as Dick.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive