Koksma, Jurjen Ferdinand, 1904-1964

found: LC data base, 10-12-90(hdg.: Koksma, Jurjen Ferdinand, 1904- ; usage: J.F. Koksma)

found: Wikipedia, June 9, 2020(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. in 1930 at the University of Groningen with a thesis on Systems of Diophantine Inequalities; at age 26 he was invited to become full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and in 1930 became the first professor in mathematics at this university; Koksma was 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 a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Koksma had two brothers who were also mathematicians, Jan Koksma and Marten Koksma)