Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1943 from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "Over modulaire vormen van meer veranderlijken" advised by Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma.
mathematician university professor
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1943 from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "Over modulaire vormen van meer veranderlijken" advised by Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma.
Born in The Hague, De Bruijn received his Master of Arts in Mathematics at the Leiden University in 1941. De Bruijn started his academic career as at the University of Amsterdam, where he was Professor of Mathematics from 1952 to 1960. In 1960 he moved to the Technical University Eindhoven where he was Professor of Mathematics until his retirement in 1984.
Among his graduate students were Johannes Runnenburg (1960), Antonius Levelt (1961), South. Ackermans (1964), Jozef Beenakker (1966), West. van der Meiden (1967), Matheus Hautus (1970), Robert Nederpelt Lazarom (1973), Lambert van Benthem Jutting (1977), A. Janssen (1979), Diederik van Daalen (1980), and Harmannus Balsters (1986).
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.