Jaap Murre
Jacob Pieter "Jaap" Murre is a Dutch mathematician specialized 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 studied mathematics at Leiden University and in 1957 he obtained his doctorate under Hendrik Kloosterman with a thesis titled: "Over multipliciteiten van maximaal samenhangende bossen". In 1959 he was appointed as associate professor at Leiden University. In 1961 he became professor of mathematics at the same institute, with a teaching assignment in algebraic geometry. He retired in 1994.
Murre was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971. He was elected a foreign member of the in 2004.
