Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
| Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn | |
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| Born |
9 July 1918 The Hague |
| Died | 17 February 2012 (aged 93) Nuenen |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Alma mater | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Doctoral advisor | Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma |
| Doctoral students |
Matheus Hautus Antonius Levelt Robert Nederpelt Lazarom Johannes Runnenburg Stan Ackermans |
| Known for |
De Bruijn sequence De Bruijn index Automath |
Nicolaas Govert (Dick) de Bruijn (Dutch pronunciation: [nikoːˈlaːs ˈxoːvərt də ˈbrœy̯n]; 9 July 1918 – 17 February 2012) was a Dutch mathematician, noted for his many contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.
Born in The Hague, De Bruijn received his MA in Mathematics at the Leiden University in 1941. He received his PhD in 1943 from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "Over modulaire vormen van meer veranderlijken" advised by Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma.
De Bruijn started his academic career as at the University of Amsterdam, where he was Professor of Mathematics from 1952 to 1960. In 1960 he moved to the Technical University Eindhoven where he was Professor of Mathematics until his retirement in 1984. Among his graduate students were Johannes Runnenburg (1960), Antonius Levelt (1961), S. Ackermans (1964), Jozef Beenakker (1966), W. van der Meiden (1967), Matheus Hautus (1970), Robert Nederpelt Lazarom (1973), Lambert van Benthem Jutting (1977), A. Janssen (1979), Diederik van Daalen (1980), and Harmannus Balsters (1986).
In 1957 he was appointed member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Knighted with the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
De Bruijn covered many areas of mathematics. He is especially noted for:
He wrote one of the standard books in advanced asymptotic analysis (De Bruijn, 1958).
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