Egbert van Kampen
Mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics University of Amsterdam
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Egbert Rudolf van Kampen was a Dutch mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Life Van Kampen was born to Dutch parents in Belgium, where his father had recently taken a job as an accountant in Antwerp. At the outbreak of World War I the family moved back to the Netherlands, first to Amsterdam and in 1918 to The Hague. At the age of 16 he graduated from high school and entered Leiden University to study mathematics. After his undergraduate studies he continued with a doctorate study at the same university under the guidance of Willem van der Woude. In 1927, Van Kampen traveled to the University of Göttingen to meet with Bartel van der Waerden and Pavel Aleksandrov. In the summer of 1928 he worked with Emil Artin at the University of Hamburg. Around that time, while still only 20 years old, he was offered a position by Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He received his Ph.D. degree with Van der Woude in Leiden in 1929, writing a dissertation entitled Die kombinatorische Topologie und die Dualitaetssaetze.
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