Henk Broer

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.

Hendrik Wolter Broer
Broer depicted in 2015
Born	(1950-02-18)18 February 1950 Diever, Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Groningen
Known for	Nonlinear dynamical systems
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Groningen, Boston University, Universitat de Barcelona
Doctoral advisor	Floris Takens
Doctoral students	Hinke Osinga

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.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors

In 2008, Broer became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1] 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:^[2]

• 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 ISBN 0883851423; summary: "Near the Horizon: An Invitation to Geometric Optics by Henk W. Broer". Bookstore, American Mathematical Society.

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. Global Analysis of Dynamical Systems. Festschrift dedicated to Floris Takens for his 60th birthday. Institute of Physics Publishing ISBN 0750308036
• 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 ISBN 981-256-169-2
• 2010. With B. Hasselblatt and F. Takens. Handbook of Dynamical Systems. Volume 3. North Holland ISBN 978-0-444-53141-4