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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
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Dutch mathematician and logician (1881–1966)
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- Works
- 3
Top works
- Collected Works
- Brouwer's Cambridge Lectures on Intuitionism
- Collected Works, Vol. 2: Geometry, Analysis, Topology and Mechanics
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Key facts
- Born
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer , ( 1881-02-27 ) 27 February 1881, Overschie , Netherlands
- Died
- 2 December 1966 (1966-12-02) (aged 85), Blaricum , Netherlands
- Alma mater
- University of Amsterdam
- Relatives
- Hendrik Albertus Brouwer (brother)
- Awards
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Amsterdam
- Thesis
- Over de grondslagen der wiskunde (1907)
- Doctoral advisor
- Diederik Korteweg
- Doctoral students
- Arend Heyting
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jan
- Family name
- Brouwer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Overschie
- Place of death
- Laren
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Amsterdam
- Employer
- University of Amsterdam
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Dutch
- Doctoral advisor
- Diederik Korteweg
- Student of
- Gerrit Mannoury
- Field of work
- complex analysis
- Image
- Bohr Brouwer Zurich1932.tif
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- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- cause of death
- traffic collision
- date of birth
- 1881-02-27
- date of death
- 1966-12-02
- manner of death
- accidental death
- Commons category
- L. E. J. Brouwer (mathematician)
- name in native language
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
- influenced by
- Immanuel Kant
- student
- Arend Heyting
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Bobby Lord
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Encyclopedic overview
Brouwer (right) at the International Mathematical Congress, Zurich 1932 Luitzen Egbertus Jan "Bertus" Brouwer (27 February 1881 – 2 December 1966) was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, he is known as one of the founders of modern topology, particularly for establishing his fixed-point theorem and the topological invariance of dimension.
Brouwer also became a major figure in the philosophy of intuitionism, a constructivist school of mathematics which argues that mathematics is a cognitive construct rather than a type of objective truth. This position led to the Brouwer–Hilbert controversy, in which Brouwer sparred with his formalist colleague David Hilbert. Brouwer's ideas were subsequently taken up by his student Arend Heyting and Hilbert's former student Hermann Weyl. In addition to his mathematical work, Brouwer also published the short philosophical tract Life, Art, and Mysticism (1905).
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