De Bruijn is a Dutch surname meaning "the brown". Notable people with the surname include: * (1887–1968), Dutch politician *

Brian de Bruijn Brian Austin de Bruijn (born September 4, 1954) is a former Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player. He played for the Netherlands men's national ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter ...

(b. 1954), Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player *

Chantal de Bruijn Chantal de Bruijn (born 13 February 1976) is a Dutch field hockey defender who has played for Dutch clubs Shinty, SV Kampong and Amsterdam. She made her debut for the Netherlands national team on 21 August 2001 against New Zealand. De Bruijn ...

(b. 1976), Dutch field hockey defender * Cornelis de Bruijn (1652–1726/7), Dutch artist and traveler * Daniëlle de Bruijn (b. 1978), Dutch water polo player *

Frans de Bruijn Kops George François "Frans" de Bruijn Kops (28 October 1886 in Benkoelen, Dutch East Indies – 22 November 1979 in The Hague) was a Dutch football (soccer) player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Dutch team, whi ...

(1886–1979), Dutch footballer *

Hans de Bruijn Johan Adam (Hans) de Bruijn (born 1 September 1962) is a Dutch political scientist and Professor of Public Administration at Delft University of Technology, known by his work in the field of process management. Life and work Born in Gouda, De Br ...

(b. 1962), Dutch political scientist *

Inge de Bruijn Inge de Bruijn (; born 24 August 1973) is a Dutch former competitive swimmer. She is a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record-holder. Personal De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, Netherlands. Inge is the sister of Olympic water ...

(b. 1973), Dutch swimmer * (born 1965), Dutch billiards player *

Jean Victor de Bruijn Jean Victor de Bruijn (25 November 1913 – 12 February 1979) was a Dutch district officer, soldier, explorer, ethnologist and writer. He spent most of his life in the Dutch East Indies, especially in Dutch New Guinea, working as a colonial admin ...

(1913–1979), Dutch district officer and ethnologist in the Dutch East Indies *

Maarten de Bruijn Maarten de Bruijn (born 1965) is a Dutch engineer. Born in Naarden, he graduated in 1996 at University of Amsterdam with master's degree in City Planning. 1990-1996 he single-handed designed, constructed and made functional prototype Spyker Silv ...

(b. 1965), Dutch engineer * Maria Brigitta Catherina de Bruijn (1938–2006), Dutch GreenLeft politician * Matthijs de Bruijn (b. 1977), Dutch waterpolo player *

Meike de Bruijn Meike de Bruijn (born 15 April 1970 in Amsterdam) is a road cyclist from Netherlands. She represented her nation at the 1995 UCI Road World Championships and 1997 UCI Road World Championships in the women's time trial. In 1995 she won a stage in ...

(born 1970), Dutch racing cyclist *

Nick de Bruijn Nick de Bruijn (born 21 February 1987 in Schiedam) is a Dutch racing driver. He has competed in such series as International Formula Master and Formula BMW ADAC. He won the European KF1 Championship The European KF1 Championship is a kart raci ...

(b. 1987), Dutch racing driver *

Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn Nicolaas Govert (Dick) de Bruijn (; 9 July 1918 – 17 February 2012) was a Dutch mathematician, noted for his many contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.

(1918–2012), Dutch mathematician *

Pi de Bruijn Pi de Bruijn (born 28 August 1942) is a Dutch architect from Losser, Overijssel, the Netherlands . He is a design principal at the Office de Architecten Cie., located in Amsterdam. History Bruijn graduated from the Delft University of Technology ...

(b. 1942), Dutch architect *

Sophia Adriana de Bruijn Sophia Adriana de Bruijn or Sophia Adriana Lopez Suasso-de Bruyn (1816 – 1890) was a Dutch museum founder in Amsterdam. Sophia was born in Amsterdam as the daughter of a well-to-do Catholic family and enjoyed travelling and collecting antiquit ...

(1816–1890), Dutch museum founder * Ruben Jacob de Bruijn (b. 2003), Dutch clothing designer

Mathematics

In mathematics, de Bruijn may refer to one of the following topics named after Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn: * De Bruijn sequence, a cyclic sequence of a given alphabet such that every length ''n'' subsequence appears exactly once **

De Bruijn torus In combinatorial mathematics, a De Bruijn torus, named after Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, is an array of symbols from an alphabet (often just 0 and 1) that contains every possible matrix of given dimensions exactly once. It is ...

, a generalization of the De Bruijn sequence in two dimensions ** De Bruijn graph, a graph representing overlaps between sequences of symbols * De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (disambiguation) **

De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (graph theory) In graph theory, the De Bruijn–Erdős theorem relates graph coloring of an infinite graph to the same problem on its finite subgraphs. It states that, when all finite subgraphs can be colored with c colors, the same is true for the whole grap ...

, a theorem about graph coloring **

De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (incidence geometry) In incidence geometry, the De Bruijn–Erdős theorem, originally published by , states a lower bound on the number of lines determined by ''n'' points in a projective plane. By Duality (projective geometry), duality, this is also a bound on the ...

, a theorem about lines determined by points in the projective plane *

De Bruijn index 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 without naming the bound variables. Terms written using these indices are invariant with ...

, a nameless representation of the λ calculus *

De Bruijn–Newman constant The de Bruijn–Newman constant, denoted by Λ and named after Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Charles M. Newman, is a mathematical constant defined via the zero of a function, zeros of a certain function (mathematics), function ''H''(''λ'', ...

, Λ, a mathematical constant related to the Riemann zeta-function *

De Bruijn notation In 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 as a reversal of the usual syntax for the λ calculus where the argument in an appl ...

, a syntax for terms in the λ calculus *

De Bruijn's theorem In a 1969 paper, Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn proved several results about packing congruent rectangular bricks (of any dimension) into larger rectangular boxes, in such a way that no space is left over. One of these results is no ...

, a theorem regarding the packing of bricks into boxes

Mathematics

See also