Albert Nijenhuis
Albert Nijenhuis | |
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Born | Dutch American | November 21, 1926
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Known for | Natural bundle Nijenhuis tensor Nijenhuis–Richardson bracket Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1961) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Doctoral advisor | Jan Arnoldus Schouten |
Doctoral students | Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian |
Albert Nijenhuis (November 21, 1926 – February 13, 2015)
His high school studies at the gymnasium in Arnhem were interrupted by the evacuation of Arnhem by the Nazis after the failure of Operation Market Garden by the Allies. He continued his high school mathematical studies by himself on his grandparents’ farm, and then took state exams in 1945.
His university studies were carried out at the
He came to the United States in 1952 as a
In 1958 he was an invited speaker at the
Career
His early work was in the area of
With Alfred Frölicher, he developed the
Soon thereafter his interests shifted to combinatorics. Much of his work was done with
After retiring, his interest in differential geometry was rekindled. His last conference presentation and paper were presented when he was nearly 70.
Personal life
Albert Nijenhuis became a U.S. citizen in 1959. He was married since 1955 and had four children. He died at the age of 88 after several months of failing health.
Selected publications
- Nijenhuis, Albert; MR 0195995.
- Nijenhuis, Albert (1972). Natural bundles and their general properties. Tokyo: Diff. Geom. in Honour of K. Yano. pp. 317–334.
- Nijenhuis, Albert; Wilf, Herbert S (1975). Combinatorial Algorithms. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-519250-9.[8]
- Nijenhuis, Albert; Wilf, Herbert S (1978). Combinatorial Algorithms for Computers and Calculators. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-519260-6.
- Nijenhuis, Albert (1995). "Connection-free differential geometry". Diff. Geom. Appl., Proc. Conf.: 171–190.
References
- ^ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2005
- ^ "Albert Nijenhuis". math.upenn.edu. University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study "Nijenhuis, Albert | Institute for Advanced Study". Archived from the original on 2014-10-19. Retrieved 2014-10-15.
- ^ Guggenheim foundation http://es.gf.org/fellows/10707-albert-nijenhuis Archived 2014-10-15 at archive.today, retrieved 2014-08-14
- ^ Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list
- ^ “Operations on vector-valued differential forms,” unpublished lecture notes, on file with the Archives of American Mathematics http://www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/math.php
- ISSN 0002-9904.
External links
- Albert Nijenhuis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- University of Washington page Archived 2012-02-06 at the Wayback Machine