Frederik van der Blij (13May 192327January 2018) was a Dutch
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
. From 1955 until his retirement in 1988 he was professor at the
University of Utrecht
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. His research focused on
number theory
Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions. Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of mathematical objects constructed from integers (for example ...
, among other fields.
See also
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Van der Blij's lemma
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1923 births
2018 deaths
Dutch mathematicians
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University
People from Leiden
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