Albert Nijenhuis

Albert Nijenhuis

Albert Nijenhuis is a Dutch mathematician at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania working on combinatorics and differential geometry, who introduced the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket, the Nijenhuis-Richardson bracket, the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket, and the Nijenhuis tensor.

elected publications

*cite book|last = Nijenhuis|first = Albert|coauthors = Wilf, Herbert S|title = Combinatorial Algorithms for Computers and Calculators|publisher = Academic Press|date = 1978|isbn = 0125192606|url = http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=578577

References

*MathGenealogy|id=24643
* [http://www.math.washington.edu/People/fac_individ.php?mathid=nijenhui University of Washington page]


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