Jan
Arnoldus Schouten (1883-1971). Born near Amsterdam in the
Netherlands. Studied electrical engineering at the Technical
University (Hogeschool) of Delft and then mathematics at the
University of Leiden. His doctoral thesis of 1914 was on tensor
analysis, a topic he worked on during his entire academic career.
From 1914 until 1943 he held a professorship in mathematics at the
University of Delft, and from 1948 to 1953 he was director of the
Mathematical Research Centre at the University of Amsterdam. He was
a prolific writer, applying tensor analysis to Lie groups, general
relativity, unified field theory, and differential
equations.