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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Max Euwe, Jan Dietz, Guido van Rossum, Pieter Mosterman, Wil van der Aalst, Andries van Dam, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Jan Bergstra, Werner Vogels, Aad van Wijngaarden, Mark Overmars, Frank van Harmelen, Gerrit Blaauw, G.M. Nijssen, Hugo Brandt Corstius, Alex Verrijn Stuart, Jan van Leeuwen, Stefan Brands, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Gerard J. Holzmann, Lambert Meertens, Jano van Hemert, Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut, Nico Habermann, Erik Meijer, Willem van der Poel, Jos Stam, Wietse Venema, Bert Bos, Maarten de Rijke, Paul Vitanyi, Piet Beertema, Henk Barendregt, Peter Hofstee, Coenraad Bron, Wim Ebbinkhuijsen, Eelco van Asperen, Peter Flach, Ronald Cramer, Cornelis H. A. Koster, Dick Grune, Jan Willem Klop. Excerpt: Machgielis (Max) Euwe (last name is pronounced ) (May 20, 1901 - November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion (1935-1937). Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, earning his doctorate in 1926, and taught mathematics, first in Rotterdam, and later at a girls' Lyceum in Amsterdam. He published a mathematical analysis of the game of chess from an intuitionistic point of view, in which he showed, using the Thue-Morse sequence, that the then-official rules did not exclude the possibility of infinite games. Euwe won every Dutch chess championship that he participated in from 1921 until 1952, and additionally won the title in 1955 - his 12 titles are still a record. The only other winners during this period were Salo Landau in 1936, when Euwe, then world champion, did not compete, and Jan Hein Donner in 1954. He became the world amateur chess champion in 1928, at The Ha...
