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 | Diederik Johannes Korteweg (1848–1941) was born and raised in ’s Hertogenbosch, in the Southern Dutch province of Brabant. |
| In September 1881, at the age of 34, Korteweg was appointed a professor of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. |
| Korteweg was associated with Van der Waals during the years that the latter was working on the phase separation of binary mixtures. |
| Korteweg biography (1164 words) |
| Korteweg originally intended to become an engineer but, although he maintained an interest in mechanics and other applications of mathematics throughout his life, his love of mathematics made him change direction for the second time when he was not enjoying the technical courses at Delft. |
| It is worth realising the breadth of Korteweg as a mathematician when one understands that most of his work is on applied mathematical topics, yet he supervised Brouwer's thesis on the foundations of mathematics. |
| Korteweg was a member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) for sixty years, being elected in 1881, and of the Wiskundig Genootschap (the |
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