Jan Brinkhuis (born 1952) is 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, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, and Associate Professor of Finance and Mathematical Methods and Techniques at the

Econometric Institute Econometric Institute (Dutch ''Econometrisch Instituut'') at the Erasmus University Rotterdam is a leading research institute in the fields of econometrics and management science in the Netherlands. The Institute offers advanced education in econom ...

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...

, specialized in the theory and application of

optimization theory Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

and

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

. Born in

Veenendaal Veenendaal () is a municipality and a town in central Netherlands, located in the province of Utrecht. Veenendaal is the only population centre within its administrative borders. The municipality had a population of 67.601 inhabitants on 1 january ...

, Brinkhuis received his PhD in mathematics in 1981 at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

under supervisor of

Albrecht Fröhlich Albrecht Fröhlich FRS (22 May 1916 – 8 November 2001) was a German-born British mathematician, famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Education He was born in Munic ...

with the thesis ''Embedding Problems and Galois Modules''. After graduation, he started his academic career as research associate at King's College London on a SERC grant. In 1983 he moved back to The Netherlands and joined the

. Since early 2000s Brinkhuis is also teacher at the

Tinbergen Institute The Tinbergen Institute is a joint institute for research and education in economics, econometrics and finance of the VU University Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam, and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The institute was founded in 1987 an ...

. In 2000 Brinkhuis was awarded Education and Research award by the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and in 2009 he was elected Tinbergen Professor of the Year 2008/2009 by the first-year students. In 2005 Brinkhuis and Vladimir Tikhomirov wrote ''Optimization: Insights and Applications'' an introduction to

mathematical optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

, published by Princeton University Press.

Publications

BooksPublications
/ref> * 1981. ''Embedding Problems and Galois Modules''. PhD thesis King's College London. * 1986. ''Normal integral bases and complex conjugation''. Econometric Institute. * 2005.
Optimization: Insights and Applications
', Jan Brinkhuis and Vladimir Tikhomirov, Princeton University Press Articles, a selection: * 1983. "Non-repetitive sequences on three symbols."

Quarterly Journal of Mathematics The ''Quarterly Journal of Mathematics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematics journal established in 1930 from the merger of ''The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics'' and the ''Messenger of Mathematics''. According to the ''Jou ...

34.2: 145-149. * 1992. "On the Galois module structure over CM-fields." manuscripta mathematic 75.1 (1992): 333-347.

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Jan Brinkhuis
at erim.eur.nl {{DEFAULTSORT:Brinkhuis, Jan 1952 births Living people Alumni of King's College London Dutch mathematicians Academics of King's College London Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam People from Veenendaal Utrecht University alumni