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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, 1881-1966. Dutch philosopher of logic and mathematician. He founded the discipline of topology and the philosophical doctrine of intuitionism. His clash with the arch-mathematician David Hilbert was legendary.

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• Brouwer's Cambridge Lectures on Intuitionism

  http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ne/brouwer.htm
  Text of the first lecture, as published in 1951, and selected fragments of lecture notes by Brouwer.

• Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brouwer/
  Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, by Mark van Atten. Includes biographical timeline and a summary of Brouwer's intuitionism.

• MacTutor History of Mathematics: Brouwer

  http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Brouwer.html
  Biographical article by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson, with links to related topics.

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