David Bierens de Haan

David Bierens de Haan (3 May 1822, in Amsterdam – 12 August 1895, in Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of science.

In 1843 he completed a study in the exact sciences and received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1847 under Gideon Janus Verdam (1802–1866) for the work De Lemniscata Bernouillana.

In 1852 he married Johanna Catharina Justina IJssel de Schepper (1827–1906) in Deventer.

In 1856 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Since 1888 he was co-editor of the works of Christiaan Huygens and in 1892 edited the Algebra of Willem Smaasen (1820–1850).