Andries Brouwer

Andries Evert Brouwer (born April 3, 1951 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist who deals with graph theory and other areas of combinatorics such as block diagrams . He is a professor at the TU Eindhoven .

Brouwer won the Dutch Mathematical Olympiad in 1967. In 1968 he graduated from high school and in 1971 he passed the doctoral examination in mathematics. Brouwer received his doctorate in mathematics (Treelike Spaces and Related Topological Spaces) in 1976 with Maarten Maurice at the Free University of Amsterdam . From 1971 he was at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI, then Mathematical Center) in Amsterdam. In addition, he regularly attended the combinatorial seminars at the TU Eindhoven, where he became professor in 1986. In 2012 he retired.

He deals with graph theory, finite geometry, classical invariant theory, topology and combinatorics (block plans, lottery systems, orthogonal Latin squares, coding theory).

In 1984 he was responsible for the publication of the early computer game Hack on Usenet . Brouwer continued to develop the game originally developed by American high school students until 1985. Brouwer was one of the original 80 or so developers of the Linux kernel from 1993 to 2004 .

In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate in Aalborg .

Fonts

• with Willem Haemers: Spectra of Graphs, Springer 2011
• with Arjeh Cohen , Arnold Neumaier: Distance Regular Graphs, Springer 1989

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV Andries Evert Brouwer ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch). Retrieved December 4, 2014  
2. ↑ Andries Brouwer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)