Mathematician:Pieter Willem Kasteleyn
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Mathematician
Dutch physicist best known for his contributions to the field of statistical mechanics.
Nationality
Dutch
History
- Born: 12 October 1924 in Leiden, Netherlands
- Died: 16 January 1996 in Leiden, Netherlands
Theorems and Definitions
Results named for Pieter Willem Kasteleyn can be found here.
Publications
- 1956: Statistical problems in ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism and adsorption
- 1961: The statistics of dimers on a lattice. I. The number of dimer arrangements on a quadratic lattice (Physica Vol. 27, no. 12: pp. 1209 – 1225)
Also known as
Known informally as Piet.