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Jos Vermaseren
Name	Jos Vermaseren
Birth date	1936
Birth place	The Hague
Death date	2013
Death place	Amsterdam
Nationality	Netherlands
Fields	Mathematics
Workplaces	University of Amsterdam, Mathematical Centre (CWI)
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Doctoral advisor	Hendrik Kloosterman

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Jos Vermaseren

Jos Vermaseren was a Dutch mathematician and academic known for contributions to number theory, algebraic combinatorics, and computational approaches used in mathematical physics and quantum field theory. He held positions at leading Dutch institutions and collaborated with researchers connected to Institute for Advanced Study, CERN, Max Planck Society, and other European centers. Vermaseren's work intersected with developments in computer algebra, influencing tools and methods used by researchers at IBM, Microsoft Research, and national laboratories such as Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Early life and education

Vermaseren was born in The Hague and received early schooling influenced by Dutch mathematical traditions exemplified by figures at the University of Amsterdam and the Mathematical Centre (CWI). He studied under mentors in the Netherlands with intellectual links to Hendrik Kloosterman, Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, Jan Burgers, and the broader Dutch mathematical community connected to Leiden University and Utrecht University. His doctoral work at the University of Amsterdam drew on themes from analytic number theory, harmonic analysis, and problems traced to the legacy of Bernhard Riemann and G. H. Hardy.

Vermaseren held faculty and research positions at the University of Amsterdam and collaborated with staff at the Mathematical Centre (CWI), the Institute for Advanced Study, and international laboratories such as CERN and DESY. He maintained professional ties with scholars from Cambridge University, Princeton University, ETH Zurich, and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. His network included collaborations with researchers affiliated with Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, and national academies such as the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Vermaseren contributed to methods in symbolic computation, computer algebra systems, and algorithmic manipulations relevant to perturbative expansions and Feynman diagram calculations used in quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics, and related particle physics contexts. His research connected to mathematical structures studied by Pierre Deligne, Alexander Grothendieck, and Jean-Pierre Serre through applications in algebraic aspects of special functions and multiple zeta values. He developed algorithms that interfaced with earlier work by creators of systems such as Maple, Mathematica, and researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology and influenced implementations used by teams at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Vermaseren's investigations into multiple zeta values and polylogarithms related to topics explored by Don Zagier, David Broadhurst, Francis Brown, and Max Kontsevich, and his computational techniques were applied in collaborations involving groups from University of Cambridge, Yale University, and Caltech.

Vermaseren authored articles and monographs appearing in outlets associated with publishers and societies such as Springer Science+Business Media, Elsevier, and the American Mathematical Society. His contributions were cited alongside works by Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and contemporaries in computational mathematics. He contributed to conferences organized by International Congress of Mathematicians, European Mathematical Society, and workshops at CERN and DESY. His software and algorithmic descriptions circulated in preprint archives and were used by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and university groups at Oxford University and Columbia University.

Vermaseren received recognition from national and international bodies including honors associated with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and acknowledgements at meetings of the European Physical Society and International Mathematical Union. His work earned citations and awards in contexts linked to institutions such as CERN, Max Planck Society, and national research councils of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and European funding agencies.

Vermaseren's legacy persists through software, algorithms, and the cohort of mathematicians and physicists influenced by his methods, many of whom are active at CERN, DESY, Stanford University, Princeton University, and other centers. His influence is reflected in continued citations in literature by scholars such as Don Zagier, David Broadhurst, Francis Brown, and in tools maintained by teams at University of Amsterdam and international collaborations involving Max Planck Institute, Imperial College London, and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Category:Dutch mathematicians Category:University of Amsterdam faculty