The Dutch mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer made contributions in the fields of topology and logic. He founded the school of thought known as intuitionism, which is based on the notion that the only dependable basis of mathematics consists of...

Brouwer was unusually intelligent, which he demonstrated by graduating from high school at the age of fourteen. After studying Greek and Latin for two years, he was admitted, in 1897, to the University of Amsterdam, where he studied mathematics. His...

Different philosophical views of the nature of mathematics and its foundations came to a head in the early twentieth century. Among the different schools of thought were the logicism of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), the formalism of David Hilbert...

Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan [addendum] Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer was one of the first to clearly distinguish between language and metalanguage, as well as to distinguish between mathematics and metamathematics. Published in his dissertation from...

1881-1966 Dutch Mathematician Dutch mathematician L. E. J. Brouwer made two principal contributions to the study of mathematics, though one—his development of a topological principle known as Brouwer's theorem—received far more...

Brouwer and Intuitionism The intuitionist conception of mathematics was developed by the Dutch mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1881–1966). According to Brouwer mathematics is not a system of formulas and rules but a fundamental form...

Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (February 27 1881, Overschie – December 2 1966, Blaricum), usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician, a graduate of the University of Amsterdam, who worked in topology,...

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Arie Brouwer, an influential figure in the ecumenical movement who recently headed the National Council of Churches, died October 7 of cancer at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey. He was 58. Brouwer served as general secretary of the National Council from 1985...