Frits Beukers

Frits Beukers (* 1953 in Ankara ) is a Dutch mathematician who deals with number theory.

Beukers received his doctorate in 1979 under Robert Tijdeman at the University of Leiden (The generalized Ramanujan-Nagell Equation, Acta Arithmetica Vol. 38, 1980/81). From 1979 to 1980 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He was then a professor in Leiden and in the 2000s at the University of Utrecht .

Beukers deals, among other things, with questions of transcendence and irrationality. Following the well-known proof by Roger Apéry (1978) of the irrationality of values ​​of the zeta function at positions 2 and 3, Beukers gave an alternative proof. He also published about dynamic systems of mechanics and questions about their exact solvability.

Fonts

• Differential Galois theory , in Michel Waldschmidt , Claude Itzykson , Jean-Marc Luck, Pierre Moussa (editors): Number Theory and Physics , Les Houches 1989, Springer 1992
• Getaltheorie voor beginners (number theory for beginners), Utrecht 2000
• A rational approach to Pi, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 2000, issue 4
• A note on the irrationality of and ${\displaystyle \zeta (2)}$ ${\displaystyle \zeta (3)}$ . Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. 11, 1979, pp. 268-272

Web links

• Homepage in Utrecht