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Koksma, Jurjen Ferdinand, 1904-1964

LC control no.n 90703728
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Personal name headingKoksma, Jurjen Ferdinand, 1904-1964
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Variant(s)Koksma, J. F., 1904-1964
Other standard no.Q983337
Associated countryNetherlands
Birth date1904-04-21
Death date1964-12-17
Place of birthSchoterland (Netherlands)
Fryslân (Netherlands)
Place of deathAmsterdam (Netherlands)
Field of activityAnalytic number theory
AffiliationVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
Profession or occupationMathematicians College teachers
Found inLC data base, 10-12-90 (hdg.: Koksma, Jurjen Ferdinand, 1904- ; usage: J.F. Koksma)
Wikipedia, June 9, 2020 (Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma; Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma (21 April 1904, Schoterland - 17 December 1964, Amsterdam) was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory; Koksma received his Ph. D. in 1930 at the University of Groningen with a thesis on Systems of Diophantine Inequalities; at age 26 he was invited to become full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and in 1930 became the first professor in mathematics at this university; Koksma was one of the founders of the Dutch Mathematisch Centrum (today Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica); one of Koksma's main works was the book Diophantische Approximationen, published in 1936 by Springer; he also wrote several papers with Paul Erdos; in 1950 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Koksma had two brothers who were also mathematicians, Jan Koksma and Marten Koksma)