Nicolaas Govert "Dick" de Bruijn (Dutch: [nikoːˈlaːs ˈxoːvərt də ˈbrœyn]; 9 July 1918 – 17 February 2012) was a Dutch mathematician, noted for his many...
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In mathematical logic, the de Bruijn index is a tool invented by the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn for representing terms of lambda calculus...
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the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, who wrote about them in 1946. As he later wrote, the existence of de Bruijn sequences for each order...
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j\leq m\}.} Although De Bruijn graphs are named after Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, they were invented independently by both de Bruijn and I. J. Good. Much...
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The de Bruijn–Newman constant, denoted by Λ and named after Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Charles Michael Newman, is a mathematical constant defined via...
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mathematical logic, the De Bruijn notation is a syntax for terms in the λ calculus invented by the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn. It can be seen...
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Dickman function (redirect from Dickman-de Bruijn function)
available, and later studied by the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn. The Dickman–de Bruijn function ρ ( u ) {\displaystyle \rho (u)} is a continuous...
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In a 1969 paper, Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn proved several results about packing congruent rectangular bricks (of any dimension) into...
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In incidence geometry, the De Bruijn–Erdős theorem, originally published by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erdős (1948), states a lower bound on the...
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one. It was created by the Dutch computer-proof pioneer Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn. De Bruijn computed it as the size of the formal proof over the size...
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