Jaap Murre

Jacob Pieter "Jaap" Murre (18 September 1929 – 9 April 2023) was a Dutch mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry.

[3] With the Italian school of algebraic geometry being in fashion he was inspired by his promotor to do doctoral research under André Weil at the University of Chicago, which he was able to do because of the Marshall Plan.

[3] In 1957 Murre obtained his doctorate under Hendrik Kloosterman with a thesis titled: Over multipliciteiten van maximaal samenhangende bossen.

He amongst others went to India to study with C. S. Seshadri and to the United Kingdom where he met David Mumford, who inspired him to work on algebraic cycles.

[3] Murre was elected a foreign member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino [it] in 2004.