Bas Edixhoven
Dutch mathematician and university teacher
About Bas Edixhoven
Lived 1962 – 2022 (aged 59). Bas Edixhoven was a Dutch mathematician and university teacher.
Sebastiaan Johan Edixhoven (12 March 1962 ) was a Dutch mathematician who worked in arithmetic geometry. He was a professor at University of Rennes 1 and Leiden University.
Education Bas Edixhoven was born on 12 March 1962 in Leiden, Netherlands. He then studied at Utrecht University where he graduated with a master's degree in pure mathematics cum laude in 1985 and a PhD in mathematics in 1989, both under the direction of Frans Oort. His thesis was about modular curves.
Awards From 1989 to 1992, Edixhoven was a recipient of the Huygens scholarship. From 1995 to 2002, he was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. In 2009, he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2008, he gave an invited lecture at the 5th European Congress of Mathematics.
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Dutch mathematician and university teacher (1962–2022)
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Bas Edixhoven was born on 12 March 1962 in Leiden.
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Bas Edixhoven died on 16 January 2022.
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Bas Edixhoven was a mathematician and university teacher.
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Bas Edixhoven was Dutch.
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