About J.P. Murre
Lived 1929 – 2023 (aged 93). J.P. Murre was a Dutch mathematician and university teacher.
Jacob Pieter "Jaap" Murre (18 September 1929 – 9 April 2023) was a Dutch mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He was a professor of mathematics at Leiden University from 1961 to 1994.
Career Murre was born on 18 September 1929 in Baarland. At his small primary school one of his classmates and friends was later botanist . Murre started studying mathematics at Delft University of Technology in 1947, he however switched to Leiden University where he obtained his degree in 1952. With the Italian school of algebraic geometry being in fashion he was inspired by his promotor to do doctoral research under André Weil at the University of Chicago, which he was able to do because of the Marshall Plan. By 1958 Murre became inspired by Alexander Grothendieck and managed to collaborate with him. In 2002 he obtained an honorary doctorate from the University of Turin.
Murre died on 9 April 2023 at the age of 93.
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Dutch mathematician
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J.P. Murre was born on 18 September 1929 in Baarland.
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J.P. Murre was a mathematician and university teacher.
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