Re: dutch mathematicians !!!

Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

amy666 wrote:

so in the past some people here on sci.math claimed the great
mathematicians are either asian , american , french or german.

and in general belittled me and my country.

revenge !! :)

so , ill post some example of a few dutch mathematicians :

( and not knowing them is your loss and ignorance !! )

Pierre Deligne

Jean Bourgain

Ingrid Daubechies

A quick survey on the Internet reveals that they are from Belgium, not
from the Netherlands (: not Dutch). Without doubt, the most well known
mathematician from the Netherlands (i.e. Dutch) is L.E.J. Brouwer:


Unless you count Huygens, or Daniel Bernoulli (who was born in Groningen
though his family was Swiss).

Then there's van der Waerden, not to mention de Bruijn (the other one).
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Robert Israel israel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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