L. E. J. Brouwer

L. E. J. Brouwer

Luitzen Egbertus Jan "Bertus" Brouwer (27 February 1881 – 2 December 1966) was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, he is known as one of the founders of modern topology, particularly for establishing his fixed-point theorem and the topological invariance of dimension. Brouwer also became a major figure in the philosophy of intuitionism, a constructivist school of mathematics which argues that math is a cognitive construct rather than a type of objective truth. Read more on Wikipedia

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L.E.J. Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and one of the founders of topology. He is most famous for the Brouwer fixed point theorem, which states that any continuous function from a compact convex set into itself has at least one fixed point.