Mathematician:Pieter Willem Kasteleyn

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

• Kasteleyn's Formula
• FKT Algorithm (with Michael Ellis Fisher and Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley)

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.