ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer

Known to his friends as Bertus.

Dutch mathematician working in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.

Founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.

Nationality

Dutch

History

• Born: 27 Feb 1881, Overschie (now a suburb of Rotterdam), Netherlands
• Died: 2 Dec 1966 in Blaricum, Netherlands

Theorems and Definitions

• Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
• Brouwer-Heyting-Kolmogorov Interpretation (with Arend Heyting, independently of Andrey Kolmogorov)

Books and Papers

• 1923: On the significance of the principle of excluded middle in mathematics, especially in function theory
• 1927: On the domains of definition of functions
• 1927: Intuitionistic reflections on formalism

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive