Michiel Hazewinkel (born 22 June 1943) is a Dutch

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, and Emeritus Professor of

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at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science and the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

, particularly known for his 1978 book ''Formal groups and applications'' and as editor of the '' Encyclopedia of Mathematics''.

Biography

Born in

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to Jan Hazewinkel and Geertrude Hendrika Werner, Hazewinkel studied at the

. He received his BA in mathematics and

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in 1963, his MA in mathematics with a minor in

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in 1965 and his PhD in 1969 under supervision of Frans Oort and Albert Menalda for the thesis "Maximal Abelian Extensions of Local Fields".Michiel Hazewinkel, Curriculum vitae
at michhaz.home.xs4all.nl. Accessed September 10, 2013 After graduation Hazewinkel started his academic career as assistant professor at the

in 1969. In 1970 he became associate professor at the

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 humani ...

, where in 1972 he was appointed professor of mathematics 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 econ ...

. Here he was thesis advisor of Roelof Stroeker (1975), M. van de Vel (1975), Jo Ritzen (1977), and Gerard van der Hoek (1980). From 1973 to 1975 he was also Professor at the

Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen The University of Antwerp ( nl, Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is ''UA'', but ''UAntwerpen'' is more recently used. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 stud ...

, where Marcel van de Vel was his PhD student. From 1982 to 1985 he was appointed part-time professor extraordinarius in mathematics at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, and part-time head of the Department of Pure Mathematics at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer (CWI) in Amsterdam. In 1985 he was also appointed professor extraordinarius in mathematics at the University of Utrecht, where he supervised the promotion of Frank Kouwenhoven (1986), Huib-Jan Imbens (1989), J. Scholma (1990) and F. Wainschtein (1992). At the Centre for Mathematics and Computer CWI in Amsterdam in 1988 he became professor of mathematics and head of the Department of Algebra, Analysis and Geometry until his retirement in 2008. Hazewinkel has been managing editor for journals as '' Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde'' since 1977; for ''Acta Applicandae Mathematicae'' since its foundation in 1983; and associate editor for '' Chaos, Solitons & Fractals'' since 1991. He was managing editor for the book series ''Mathematics and Its Applications'' for Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1977; ''Mathematics and Geophysics'' for Reidel Publishing in 1981; Encyclopedia of Mathematics for Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1987 to 1994; and ''Handbook of Algebra'' in 9 volumes for Elsevier Science Publishers in 1995. Hazewinkel was member of 15 professional societies in the field of mathematics, and participated in numerous administrative tasks in institutes, program committee, steering committee, consortiums, councils and boards. In 1994 Hazewinkel was elected member of the International Academy of Computer Sciences and Systems.

Publications

Hazewinkel has authored and edited several books, and numerous articles. Books, selection : * 1970. ''Géométrie algébrique-généralités-groupes commutatifs''. With Michel Demazure and Pierre Gabriel. Masson & Cie. * 1976. ''On invariants, canonical forms and moduli for linear, constant, finite dimensional, dynamical systems''. With Rudolf E. Kálmán. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. * 1978
''Formal groups and applications''
Vol. 78. Elsevier. * 1993. ''Encyclopaedia of Mathematics''. ed. Vol. 9. Springer. Articles, a selection: * * * *

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