Hendrik Wolter "Henk" Broer (born 18 February 1950, Diever) is a Dutch mathematician known for contributions to the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems. He was professor at the University of Groningen between 1981 and 2015.
Biography
Broer was granted a doctorate in the faculty of mathematics and natural sciences in 1979 under the supervision of Floris Takens for a thesis entitled Bifurcations of singularities in volume preserving vector fields. He was a professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, from 1981 until his retirement in 2015.
In 1985, he spent a semester as a guest professor of Boston University, Massachusetts. He is a long term member of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society, serving as chairman from 2007 to 2009.
Awards and honors
In 2008, Broer became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2015, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Books
Broer has written a number of books and published over 120 articles on his subject, including the following:
- 1991. With F. Dumortier, S.J. van Strien and F.Takens. Structures in dynamics: finite dimensional deterministic studies. Studies in Mathematical Physics 2 North Holland
- 1995. With J. van de Craats and F. Verhulst. Chaostheorie - Het einde van de voorspelbaarheid? Epsilon Uitgaven 35 [Reprinted as Het einde van de voorspelbarheid? Chaostheorie, ideeën en toepassingen. Aramith Uitgevers - Epsilon Uitgaven 35
- 1996. With G.B. Huitema and M.B. Servryuk. Quasi-periodic tori in families of dynamical systems: order amidst chaos. Springer LNM 1645
- 1999. Meetkunde en Fysica, met differentiaalvormen en integraalstellingen. Epsilon Uitgaven 44
- 2003. With I. Hoveijn, G.A. Lunter and G. Vegter. Bifurcations in Hamiltonian systems. Springer LNM 1806
- 2011. With F.Takens, Dynamical Systems and Chaos. Epsilon Uitgaven 64; Appl. Math. Sciences 172, Springer-Verlag
- 2013. Hemelverschijnselen nabij de horizon, naar Minnaert en Wegener, Bernoulli en Hamilton. Epsilon Uitgaven 77
- 2016. Near the horizon: an invitation to geometric optics. The Carus Mathematical Monographs 33 MAA ; summary:
Edited books
- 1990. With F. Verhulst. Dynamische systemen en chaos: een revolutie vanuit de wiskunde. Epsilon Uitgaven 14
- 2001. With B. Krauskopf and G. Vegter. [https://books.google.com/books?id=K8ut7gQTCYAC Global Analysis of Dynamical Systems. Festschrift dedicated to Floris Takens for his 60th birthday.] Institute of Physics Publishing
- 2005. With F. Dumortier, J. Mawhin, A. Vanderbauwhede and S.M. Verduyn Lunel. Equadiff 2003. Proceedings International Conference on Differential Equations, Hasselt 2003. World Scientific
- 2010. With B. Hasselblatt and F. Takens. Handbook of Dynamical Systems. Volume 3. North Holland
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