Nicolaas Kuiper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nicolaas Kuiper

Dutch mathematician

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1920

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 12-Dec-1994

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Nicolaas Kuiper

  • Nicolaas Hendrik "Nico" Kuiper (Dutch pronunciation: ['kÅ“yp?r]; 28 June 1920, in Rotterdam – 12 December 1994, in Heteren) was a Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test and proving Kuiper's theorem.
  • He also contributed to the Nash embedding theorem. Kuiper studied at University of Leiden in 1937-41, and worked as a secondary school teacher of mathematics in Dodrecht in 1942-47.
  • He completed his Ph.D.
  • in differential geometry from the University of Leiden in 1946 under the supervision of Willem van der Woude.
  • In 1947, he then came to the United States at the invitation to Veblen, where he visited the Institute for Advanced Study for two years, meeting Shiing-Shen Chern, and he also went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
  • In 1954, he went for a second time to Ann Arbor where he met Raoul Bott and his student Stephen Smale.
  • In 1950 he was appointed professor of mathematics (and statistics) at the Agricultural University of Wageningen.
  • In 1957, he was notably one of the six participants to the first Arbeitstagung, an informal seminar animated by Friedrich Hirzebruch, which later became very popular among mathematicians; he saw at this occasion Alexander Grothendieck presenting his first revolutionary works in algebraic geometry.
  • In 1960 he visited Northwestern University in Evanston for half a year. He became professor of pure mathematics at the University of Amsterdam in 1962.
  • In 1969-70 he made a second visit at the Institute for Advanced Study.
  • At his return from Princeton, he gave a talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians organised in Nice, during which he was appointed in the executive committee of the International Mathematical Union for 1971–1975.
  • He finally served as director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques from 1971 until his retirement in 1985, then stayed there as a long-term visitor for six years.
  • In 1990, he was appointed chairman of the program committee of the International Congress of Mathematicians held at Kyoto.
  • In 1991, he returned to the Netherlands to live in Heteren, and continued to participate in mathematical colloquia at the University of Utrecht.

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