De Bruijn
De Bruijn is a Dutch surname meaning "the brown". Notable people with the surname include:
- , Dutch politician
- Brian de Bruijn, Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player
- Chantal de Bruijn, Dutch field hockey defender
- Cornelis de Bruijn, Dutch artist and traveler
- Daniëlle de Bruijn, Dutch water polo player
- Frans de Bruijn Kops, Dutch footballer
- Hans de Bruijn, Dutch political scientist
- Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
- , Dutch billiards player
- Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician
- Maarten de Bruijn, Dutch engineer
- Maria Brigitta Catherina de Bruijn, Dutch GreenLeft politician
- Matthijs de Bruijn, Dutch waterpolo player
- Meike de Bruijn, Dutch racing cyclist
- Nick de Bruijn, Dutch racing driver
- Pi de Bruijn, Dutch architect
- Sophia Adriana de Bruijn, Dutch museum founder
Mathematics
In mathematics, de Bruijn may refer to one of the following topics named after Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn:
- De Bruijn sequence, a cyclic sequence of a given alphabet such that every length n subsequence appears exactly once
- * De Bruijn torus, a generalization of the De Bruijn sequence in two dimensions
- * De Bruijn graph, a graph representing overlaps between sequences of symbols
- De Bruijn–Erdős theorem
- * De Bruijn–Erdős theorem, a theorem about graph coloring
- * De Bruijn–Erdős theorem, a theorem about lines determined by points in the projective plane
- De Bruijn index, a nameless representation of the λ calculus
- De Bruijn–Newman constant, Λ, a mathematical constant related to the Riemann zeta-function
- De Bruijn notation, a syntax for terms in the λ calculus
- De Bruijn's theorem, a theorem regarding the packing of bricks into boxes
