In the history of mathematics, Jan Willem Nienhuys is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jan Willem Nienhuys as Dutch mathematician.
Jan Willem Nienhuys was born at The Hague in 1942. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He studied at Utrecht University.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
That the work was done from Netherlands matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
