deaths
December 2, 1966
L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (born 1881)
L. E. J. Brouwer
Luitzen Egbertus Jan "Bertus" Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, he is known as one of the founders of modern topology, particularly for establishing his fixed-point theorem and the topological invariance of dimension.