Education
Born in Amsterdam, Brouwer attended the gymnasium, and obtained his Master of Science in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam in 1971. In 1976 he received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Vrije Universiteit with a thesis entitled "Treelike Spaces and Related Topological Spaces", under the supervision of Maarten Maurice and Pieter Baayen, both of whom were in turn students of Johannes De Groot.