Willem van der Woude

Van der Woude (right) in Leiden (1917)

Willem van der Woude (born January 15, 1876 in Oosternijkerk , † September 23, 1974 in Oegstgeest ) was a Dutch mathematician.

Life

Van der Woude was born as the son of the teacher Albert Roelofs van der Woude (born November 19, 1834 in Rinsumageest; † June 16, 1916 in Dokkum) and his wife Reinske Willems Kuipers (born September 15, 1835 in Sarhuizum; † February 10, 1924 born in Witmarsum). He had attended grammar school in Leeuwarden and studied at the University of Groningen . After taking his candidate exam in 1898, he completed his doctoral exam in 1901. From 1901 to 1916 he worked as a teacher, first at the grammar school, then at the higher citizen school (HBS) in Deventer . On May 4, 1908 , Woude received his doctorate from Pieter Schoute in Groningen on the subject of Over elkaar snijdende normal aan een ellipsoïde en een hyperellipsoïde (German: normals intersecting one another on an ellipsoid and a hyperellipsoid ) as a doctor of philosophy.

On February 8, 1916, he was appointed to the professorship of mathematics and mechanics at the University of Leiden , which he did on May 16 of the same year with the introductory speech Over 't Snijpuntenstelsel van twee Algebraïsche Krommen (German: About T Intersections of Two Algebraic Curves ) started. During his professorship, among others, Dirk Struik , Nicolaas Kuiper , Gerrit Bol , Egbert van Kampen , Tatjana Pawlowna Ehrenfest became his students. In the academy year 1934/35 he was rector of the University of Leiden , for which he gave the rector's speech Meetkunde en ruimteleer (German: geometry and space theory ) on February 7, 1935 . After the Leiden university was closed by the German occupiers on November 26th in 1940, van der Woude took over the deputy rectorate of the newly established university in 1941 at the side of Alexander Willem Byvanck , which he held until February 1st, 1943. In the post-war phase from May to September 1945 he was rector of the Leiden Alma Mater. On September 16, 1946, he was retired from his professorship. In 1923, 1924, 1939 and 1940 he was director of the Wiskundig Genootschap and in 1926 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences .

Van der Woude married in Deventer with the teacher Wilhelmina Cornelia Schurink (born May 30, 1873 in Steenwijk; † March 11, 1955 in Oegstgeest), the daughter of the merchant Roelof Schurink (born June 26, 1842 in Steenwijk; † August 9 1914 ibid.) And his wife Hilligje Volkers, who married on August 14, 1872 in Steenwijk (born June 30, 1848 in Steenwijk; † March 21, 1913 ibid.). No children are known from the marriage.

Works (selection)

• Over elkaar snijdende normal aan een ellipsoïde en een hyperellipsoïde. Deventer 1908
• Over 't snijpuntenstelsel van twee algebraic krommen. Groningen 1916
• Meet customer en ruimteleer. Leiden 1935
• Programma der feestelijkheden tgv het 370-jarig bestaan ​​the Leidsche Universiteit en hair plechtige heropening, te houden from 15 Sept. tot en met 18 Sept. in het jaar der herleefde vrijheid 1945. Leiden 1945

literature

• E. Bertin, H. Bos, A. Grootendorst: Two decades of mathematics in the Netherlands 1920-1940. Mathematical Center, Amsterdam 1978
• AC Zaanen: Levens report W. van der Woude. In: Jaarboek of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 1974. Amsterdam, 1974, pp. 196–198 ( Online PDF )

Web links

• Woude entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
• Woude entry in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
• Woude entry at the digital library of Dutch literature (DBNL)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willem van der Woude in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)