Maurice Vandeweyer is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Maurice Vandeweyer as Belgian comics artist, playwright and mathematician.
Maurice Vandeweyer was born at Limburg in 1945. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from Belgium matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Maurice Vandeweyer died in 2021, aged 76. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
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