Jan Brinkhuis (born 1952) is a Dutch mathematician, and Associate Professor of Finance and Mathematical Methods and Techniques at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam, specialized in the theory and application of optimization theory and game theory.
[1] Born in Veenendaal, Brinkhuis received his PhD in mathematics in 1981 at King's College London under supervisor of Albrecht Fröhlich with the thesis Embedding Problems and Galois Modules.
After graduation, he started his academic career as research associate at King's College London on a SERC grant.
In 1983 he moved back to The Netherlands and joined the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
[3] In 2005 Brinkhuis and Vladimir Tikhomirov wrote Optimization: Insights and Applications an introduction to mathematical optimization,[4] published by Princeton University Press.