Willem Abraham Wythoff, born Wijthoff (Dutch pronunciation:[ʋɛithɔf]), (6 October 1865 – 21 May 1939) was a Dutchmathematician.
Biography
Wythoff was born in Amsterdam to Anna C. F. Kerkhoven and Abraham Willem Wijthoff,[1] who worked in a sugar refinery.[2] He studied at the University of Amsterdam, and earned his Ph.D. in 1898 under the supervision of Diederik Korteweg.[3]
Willem Abraham Wythoff was the youngest of four children born into the wealthy family of Abraham Willem Wijthoff and Anna Catharina Frederika Kerkhoven. His father was a Lutheran and son of the Amsterdam sugar refinery family Wijthoff & Son. His older sisters were: mathematician Geertruida (Truida) Wijthoff, writer Henriëtte Wijthoff and illustrator Anna Catharina Frederika Wijthoff.[6]
Selected publications
Wythoff, W. A. (1905–1907), "A modification of the game of nim", Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 2: 199–202.
Wythoff, W. A. (1918), "A relation between the polytopes of the C600-family", Proceedings of the Section of Sciences, 20, Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam: 966–970, Bibcode:1918KNAB...20..966W.