Johannes de Groot

Johannes de Groot , (born May 7, 1914 in Garrelsweer , † September 11, 1972 in Rotterdam ) was a Dutch mathematician .

Life

From 1933 he studied mathematics in the main subject and physics and philosophy in the minor subjects at the University of Groningen . He completed his studies in 1942 with a doctorate. He then worked as a mathematics teacher at schools in Coevorden and The Hague until he got a scientific position at the Mathematisch Centrum in 1946 . In 1947 he gave readings at the University of Amsterdam . The following year he was named professor of mathematics at Delft University of Technology . In 1949 he married Lutgerdina Steffina Koster, with whom he had a daughter. From 1952 he held the same position at the University of Amsterdam. At the Mathematisch Centrum he was head of the pure mathematics department from 1960. From 1964 he was dean of the University of Amsterdam. Since then he has no longer been a manager at the Mathematical Center, but has only been active in an advisory capacity.

His fields of work were topology and topological groups . In 1969 he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .

literature

PC Baayen en MA Maurice: 'De Groot, Johannes (1914-1972)', General Topology and Appl. 3, (1973), pp. 1-32.
Hans Freudenthal : 'Levensbericht van Johannes de Groot', Jaarboek Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 1972, pp. 119–121.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ CE Aull, R. Lowen: Handbook of the History of General Topology, Volume 1, 1997, p. 164
↑ In memoriam J. de Groot, 1914-1972 in: Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (3), 2 1 (1973) 1-36

personal data
SURNAME	Groot, Johannes de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Garrelsweer
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1972
Place of death	Rotterdam

[1] CE Aull, R. Lowen: Handbook of the History of General Topology, Volume 1, 1997, p. 164

[2] In memoriam J. de Groot, 1914-1972 in: Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (3), 2 1 (1973) 1-36