Mathematician:Willem Abraham Wythoff

Mathematician

Dutch mathematician known for his work in in combinatorial game theory and number theory.

Also known for his work in geometry, in particular for the Wythoff construction of uniform tilings and uniform polyhedra.

Nationality

Dutch

History

• Born: 6 October 1865 in Amsterdam
• Died: 21 May 1939 in Amsterdam

Theorems

• Wythoff Construction
• Wythoff Symbol

• Wythoff's Game
• Wythoff Array
• Wythoff Pair
• Wythoff Sequences:
  • Upper Wythoff Sequence
  • Lower Wythoff Sequence

Definitions of concepts named for Willem Abraham Wythoff can be found here.

Publications

• 1905 - 1907: A modification of the game of nim (Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde Vol. 2: pp. 199 – 202)
• 1918: A relation between the polytopes of the C600-family (Proceedings of the Section of Sciences, Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam Vol. 20: pp. 966 – 970)

Also known as

Willem Abraham Wythoff's surname at birth was Wijthoff.