Andries Brouwer

Andries Brouwer
Born	1951
Citizenship	Netherlands
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	CWI, TU/e
Alma mater	Vrije Universiteit
Doctoral advisor	Maarten Maurice, Pieter Baayen
Known for	Graph theory, Hack

Andries Evert Brouwer (born 1951) is a Dutch mathematician and computer programmer, Professor Emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

Born in Amsterdam, Brouwer attended the gymnasium, and obtained his MSc in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam in 1971. In 1976 he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Vrije Universiteit with a thesis entitled "Treelike Spaces and Related Topological Spaces", under the supervision of Maarten Maurice and Pieter Baayen, both of whom were in turn students of Johannes De Groot. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University.

After graduation Brouwer started his academic career at the Mathematisch Centrum, later Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. From 1986 to 2012 he was Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

Brouwer's varied research interests include several branches of discrete mathematics, particularly graph theory, finite geometry and coding theory. Brouwer is known as the creator of the greatly expanded 1984–5 versions of the roguelike computer game Hack that formed the basis for NetHack. He is also a Linux kernel hacker.

He has published dozens of papers in graph theory and other areas of combinatorics, many of them in collaboration with other researchers. His co-authors include at least 9 of the co-authors of Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 2.

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