David van Dantzig

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David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959, Amsterdam) was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid.

Biography

Born in Amsterdam in 1900, Van Dantzig started to study Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam in 1917, where Gerrit Mannoury lectured.^[1] He received his PhD at the University of Groningen in 1931 for the thesis entitled "Studien over topologische algebra" under supervision of Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.^[2]

He was appointed professor at the Delft University of Technology in 1938, and at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. Among his doctoral students were Jan Hemelrijk (1950), Johan Kemperman (1950), D. Stoker (1955), and Constance van Eeden (1958).^[2] In Amsterdam he was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum. At the University of Amsterdam he was succeeded by Jan Hemelrijk.

Originally working on topics in differential geometry and topology, after World War II he focused on probability, emphasizing the applicability to statistical hypothesis testing.

Publications

Books, a selection:

1931. Studien over topologische algebra. Doctoral thesis University of Groningen.
1832. Over de elementen van het wiskundig denken : voordracht. Rede Delft. Groningen : Noordhoff.
1938. Vragen en schijnvragen over ruimte en tijd : een toepassing van den wiskundigen denkvorm. Inaugurale rede Technische Hogeschool te Delft
1948. De functie der wetenschap : drie voordrachten, met discussie. With E.W. Beth and C.F.P. Stutterheim. 's-Gravenhage : Leopold

Articles, a selection:

D. van Dantzig, C. Scheffer "On hereditary time discrete stochastic processes, considered as stationary Markov chains, and the corresponding general form of Wald’s fundamental identity," Indag. Math. (16), No.4, (1954), p. 377–388

References

↑ Siegenbeek van Heukelom, J., and Gerard Alberts. "Correspondentie David van Dantzig--Gerrit Mannoury historische notitie SEN, 1." (2000) mentioned:
Correspondence David van Dantzig--Gerrit Mannoury October 23rd 1917, after the second lecture in a course on analytical geometry David van Dantzig, student of chemistry, wrote a long letter to the professor of mathematics Gerrit Mannoury. It proved the starting point of a life-long symbiosis of pupil and master in mathematics, metamathematics and significs...
↑ 2.0 2.1 David van Dantzig at Mathematics Genealogy Project.

External links

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "David van Dantzig", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
David van Dantzig at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 6795391 LCCN: n2005002894 MGP: 49638

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Name	Dantzig, David van
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Short description	Dutch mathematician
Date of birth	September 23, 1900
Place of birth
Date of death	July 22, 1959
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