Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer

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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer , usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.[2][4][5] Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century,[6] he is known as the founder of modern topology,[7] particularly for establishing his fixed-point theorem and the topological invariance of dimension.[8]

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