Albert Nijenhuis

Mathematician, Award Winner

1926 –

33

Who is Albert Nijenhuis?

Albert Nijenhuis is a Dutch mathematician at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania working on combinatorics and differential geometry, who introduced the Nijenhuis tensor, the Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket, the Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket, and the Nijenhuis–Richardson bracket.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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Born
Nov 21, 1926
Eindhoven
Nationality
  • Netherlands
Profession
Education
  • PhD, University of Amsterdam
    Mathematics
    ( - 1952)
Lived in
  • Washington

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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