David Bierens de Haan explained

David Bierens de Haan (3 May 1822, in Amsterdam – 12 August 1895, in Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of science.

Biography

Bierens de Haan was a son of the rich merchant Abraham Pieterszoon de Haan (1795–1880) and Catharina Jacoba Bierens (1797–1835). In 1843 he completed a study in the exact sciences and received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1847 under Gideon Janus Verdam (1802–1866) for the work Latin: De Lemniscata Bernouillana. After this he became a teacher of physics and mathematics at a gymnasium in Deventer. In 1852 he married Johanna Catharina Justina de Schepper (1827–1906) in Deventer.

In 1856 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] Since 1866 he was professor of mathematics at Leiden University. Since 1888 he was co-editor of the works of Christiaan Huygens and in 1892 edited the Algebra of Willem Smaasen (1820–1850).

He had a large library on mathematics, the history of science and pedagogy, which currently resides at the Leiden University Library.

His most important contribution to mathematics consist of the issuing of a large table of integrals French: (Nouvelles) tables d'intégrales définies in 1858 (and 1867). His doctoral students include Pieter Hendrik Schoute.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: David Bierens de Haan (1822 - 1895) . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 17 July 2015.