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Apr 21, 1904 Heerenveen, Friesland, Netherlands Died on 17 Dec 1964 (aged 60)
Dutch mathematician
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About Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma
- Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma (21 April 1904, Schoterland – 17 December 1964, Amsterdam) was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory.Koksma received his Ph.D.
- degree (cum laude) in 1930 at the University of Groningen under supervision of Johannes van der Corput, with a thesis on Systems of Diophantine Inequalities.
- Around the same time, aged 26, he was invited to become full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
- He accepted and in 1930 became the first professor in mathematics at this university.
- Koksma is also one of the founders of the Dutch Mathematisch Centrum (today Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica). One of Koksma's main works was the book Diophantische Approximationen, published in 1936 by Springer.
- He also wrote several papers with Paul Erdos. In 1950 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.Koksma had two brothers who were also mathematicians; Jan Koksma and Marten Koksma.
