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L. E. J. Brouwer

1881 - 1966

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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 math 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. L. E. J. Brouwer is the 96th most popular mathematician (up from 227th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 221st in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Mathematician.

L.E.J. Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and one of the founders of topology. He is most famous for the Brouwer fixed point theorem, which states that any continuous function from a compact convex set into itself has at least one fixed point.

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Among mathematicians, L. E. J. Brouwer ranks 96 out of 1,004. Before him are Stefan Banach, Christian Goldbach, Jim Simons, Leopold Kronecker, Frank P. Ramsey, and Joan Clarke. After him are Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Paul Erdős, John Wallis, Claude Shannon, and Felix Klein.

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Among people born in 1881, L. E. J. Brouwer ranks 32. Before him are Alexei Rykov, Erwin von Witzleben, Asta Nielsen, Irving Langmuir, Alcide De Gasperi, and Ettore Bugatti. After him are Walter Rudolf Hess, Georg von Küchler, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Władysław Sikorski, George Enescu, and Maximilian von Weichs. Among people deceased in 1966, L. E. J. Brouwer ranks 19. Before him are Sergei Korolev, Frits Zernike, George de Hevesy, Cemal Gürsel, Felix Steiner, and Ken Miles. After him are Montgomery Clift, Chester W. Nimitz, Dietrich von Choltitz, Vincent Auriol, Guillermo Stábile, and Chang Myon.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, L. E. J. Brouwer ranks 68 out of 1,646. Before him are Frank Rijkaard (1962), Theo van Doesburg (1883), Theo van Gogh (1857), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Michiel de Ruyter (1607), and Hugo de Vries (1848). After him are William II, Prince of Orange (1626), Pieter de Hooch (1629), Ronald Koeman (1963), Mark Rutte (1967), Han van Meegeren (1889), and Peter Canisius (1521).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, L. E. J. Brouwer ranks 1. After him are Willebrord Snellius (1580), Gemma Frisius (1508), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Willem de Sitter (1872), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Arend Heyting (1898), and Jacobus Golius (1596).

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