De Bruijn
De Bruijn is a Dutch surname meaning "the brown". Notable people with the surname include:
- Adrianus Cornelis de Bruijn (1887–1968), Dutch politician
- Brian de Bruijn (b. 1954), Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player
- Chantal de Bruijn (b. 1976), Dutch field hockey defender
- Cornelis de Bruijn (1652–1726/7), Dutch artist and traveler
- Daniëlle de Bruijn (b. 1978), Dutch water polo player
- Frans de Bruijn Kops (1886–1979), Dutch footballer
- Hans de Bruijn (b. 1962), Dutch political scientist
- Inge de Bruijn (b. 1973), Dutch swimmer
- Jean Paul de Bruijn (born 1965), Dutch billiards player
- Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012), Dutch mathematician
- Maarten de Bruijn (b. 1965), Dutch engineer
- Maria Brigitta Catherina de Bruijn (1938–2006), Dutch GreenLeft politician
- Matthijs de Bruijn (b. 1977), Dutch waterpolo player
- Meike de Bruijn (born 1970), Dutch racing cyclist
- Nick de Bruijn (b. 1987), Dutch racing driver
- Pi de Bruijn (b. 1942), Dutch architect
- Sophia Adriana de Bruijn (1816–1890), 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 (disambiguation)
- De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (graph theory), a theorem about graph coloring
- De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (incidence geometry), 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
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