Alfred van der Poorten
Dutch-Australian mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alfred Jacobus van der Poorten was a Dutch-Australian number theorist, for many years on the mathematics faculties of the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University. Biography Van der Poorten was born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1942, after the German occupation began. His parents, David and Marianne van der Poorten, gave him into foster care with the Teerink family in Amersfoort, under the name "Fritsje"; the senior van der Poortens went into hiding, were caught by the Nazis, survived the concentration camps, and were reunited with van der Poorten and his two sisters after the war. The family moved to Sydney in 1951, travelling there aboard the .
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