Famous People with Name Jurjen

Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma: was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory.[1]Koksma received his Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in 1930 at the University of Groningen under supervision of Johannes van der Corput, with a thesis on Systems of Diophantine Inequalities.[2]. Around the same time, aged 26, he was invited to become full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He accepted and in 1930 became the first professor in mathematics at this university. Koksma is also one of the founders of the Dutch Mathematisch Centrum (today Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica).

Jurjen Pieter (Jurn) De Vries            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jurjen Pieter (Jurn) De Vries: is a Dutch theologian and former politician and journalist.

Jurjen Jacob (Jurrie) Koolhof            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jurjen Jacob (Jurrie) Koolhof: a former Dutch international football striker and manager.As a player, Koolhof had a long and productive career, with 190 league goals. He played for a number of clubs in the Netherlands including Vitesse Arnhem, F.C. Groningen and PSV Eindhoven. For the latter he scored a total of 69 goals in 106 appearances and formed a great tandem with Norway's Hallvar Thoresen in the mid-eighties.He began his career at the local pride BV Veendam, breaking into the first-team squad in 1978. He began scoring prolifically in the late 1980s, attracting a lot of attention. He was transferred to Vitesse in the new decade. In his second season in Arnhem he managed to score 19 goals in 16 appearances, an exceptional average of 1.2 goals per match. During the 1981/1982 transfer window he signed a contract at PSV Eindhoven, his first Eredivisie club.