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Diederik Korteweg
Dutch mathematician (*1848 – †1941)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 31 March 1848
- Died
- 10 May 1941
- Place of birth
- 's-Hertogenbosch
- Place of death
- Amsterdam
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Korteweg
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Position held
- Rector of the university of Amsterdam
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Native language
- Dutch
- academic thesis
- Over voortplantings-snelheid van golven in elastische buizen
- described by source
- Onze Hoogleeraren
- doctoral advisor
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- doctoral student
- Gustav de Vries, Willem Abraham Wythoff, Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, Julius Wolff, Hendrik de Vries, Johan Antony Barrau, Frederik Schuh, H.J. E. Beth, Dirk de Lange, Jurgen Heinrich Moritz Falkenhagen, Frederik Martinus Cohen, Cornelia van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Dutch
- notable work
- Korteweg–De Vries equation, Moens–Korteweg equation
- place of burial
- Zorgvlied
- relative
- Johan d'Aulnis de Bourouill
- residence
- Netherlands
- student
- Gerrit Mannoury
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