LC control no. | n 90703728 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Koksma, Jurjen Ferdinand, 1904-1964 |
Variant(s) | Koksma, J. F., 1904-1964 |
Other standard no. | Q983337 |
Associated country | Netherlands |
Birth date | 1904-04-21 |
Death date | 1964-12-17 |
Place of birth | Schoterland (Netherlands) Fryslân (Netherlands) |
Place of death | Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
Field of activity | Analytic number theory |
Affiliation | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen |
Profession or occupation | Mathematicians College teachers |
Found in | LC 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) |