Pieter Kasteleyn
Pieter "Piet" Willem Kasteleyn (born October 12, 1924 in Leiden (city) ; † January 16, 1996 ibid) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who dealt with statistical physics.
After graduating from school in 1942, Kasteleyn first studied chemistry in Amsterdam and after the war physics in Leiden, graduating in 1951 and receiving his doctorate under Sybren Ruurds de Groot in 1956. From 1963 he was a full professor at the Lorentz Institute of the University of Leiden. In 1985 he retired.
The FKG inequality in statistical mechanics is named after him (and after Cees Fortuin and Jean Ginibre ) and the FKT algorithm in graph theory is named after him, Michael E. Fisher and Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley .
With Cees Fortuin he developed the random cluster model in a series of works.
In 1979 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and was secretary of their physics department from 1981 to 1985.
Web links
- Website at the KNAW
- Literature by and about Pieter Kasteleyn in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fortuin, Kasteleyn, Ginibre, Correlation inequalities on some partially ordered sets, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 22, 1971, pp. 89-103
- ↑ His article appeared in 1961 independently of the article by Temperley and Fisher: Kasteleyn, The statistics of dimers on a lattice. I. The number of dimer arrangements on a quadratic lattice, Physica, Volume 27, 1961, pp. 1209-1225
- ^ Fortuin, Kasteleyn, On the random-cluster model: I. Introduction and relation to other models, Physica, Volume 57, 1972, pp. 536-564
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| SURNAME | Kasteleyn, Pieter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kasteleyn, Piet; Kasteleyn, Pieter Willem |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leiden (city) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1996 |
| Place of death | Leiden (city) |