Jan Willem Nienhuys
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16 April 1942 The Hague |
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| Fields | Mathematician | ||
| Institutions | Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
| Alma mater | Utrecht University | ||
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Jan Willem Nienhuys (born 16 April 1942) is a Dutch mathematician, book translator and skeptic. He taught mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is also a board member and secretary of Stichting Skepsis and an editor of its magazine Skepter.
Nienhuys studied mathematics in the Netherlands, and in 1966/67 at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he met his future wife. On 14 September 1970, he earned his doctorate in mathematics at Utrecht University under guidance of his promotor Hans Freudenthal. His dissertation was published the same year in the journal Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings). Next, he was mathematics teacher for two years at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. Since 1973, he taught mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Furthermore, Nienhuys assisted several writers in completing their books, and translated books to Dutch.
Nienhuys married Cheng Shan-Hwei and they have two sons. She was born in Sichuan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and was raised in Taiwan, where she studied mathematics as well, finishing her studies in the United States. Then she taught informatics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Furthermore, she is director of the Chinese School Eindhoven. The couple published an article together in 1979, Onwaar versus onzinnig in the Dutch journal Euclides, and co-authored a book about China, China: Geschiedenis, Cultuur, Wetenschap, Kunst En Politiek (2007).
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