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# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:11:56.058Z

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name: "L. E. J. Brouwer"
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description: "He proved you can't fully stir a cup of coffee — every rotation leaves at least one point unmoved. That fixed-point theorem made him a founder of modern topology, but his deeper fight was over what mathematics even is."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer was born in the Netherlands on 27 February 1881 and trained as a mathematician, carving out fundamental results in topology, set theory, measure theory, and complex analysis. His fixed-point theorem and proof that topological dimension is invariant became cornerstones of 20th-century mathematics. But in 1905 he published "Life, Art, and Mysticism," signaling a philosophical turn: he came to champion intuitionism, the view that mathematics is a mental construction, not discovered truth waiting in some Platonic realm. That conviction ignited the Brouwer–Hilbert controversy, a bitter public clash with formalist David Hilbert over the foundations of the field. His student Arend Heyting and Hilbert's former protégé Hermann Weyl carried the intuitionist torch forward. Brouwer died on 2 December 1966, having reshaped both the map of abstract space and the terms of the debate over what mathematical objects actually are.