Mathematician:Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
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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)
- 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.