De Bruijn
# De Bruijn

De Bruijn is a Dutch surname meaning "the brown". Notable people with the surname include:

* Adrianus Cornelis de Bruijn [de; nl] (1887–1968), Dutch politician
* Brian de Bruijn (b. 1954), Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player
* Chantal de Bruijn (b. 1976), Dutch field hockey defender
* Cornelis de Bruijn (1652–1726/7), Dutch artist and traveler
* Daniëlle de Bruijn (b. 1978), Dutch water polo player
* Frans de Bruijn Kops (1886–1979), Dutch footballer
* Hans de Bruijn (b. 1962), Dutch political scientist
* Inge de Bruijn (b. 1973), Dutch swimmer
* Jean Paul de Bruijn [de; nl] (born 1965), Dutch billiards player
* Jean Victor de Bruijn (1913–1979), Dutch district officer and ethnologist in the Dutch East Indies
* Maarten de Bruijn (b. 1965), Dutch engineer
* Maria Brigitta Catherina de Bruijn (1938–2006), Dutch GreenLeft politician
* Matthijs de Bruijn (b. 1977), Dutch waterpolo player
* Meike de Bruijn (born 1970), Dutch racing cyclist
* Nick de Bruijn (b. 1987), Dutch racing driver
* Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012), Dutch mathematician
* Pi de Bruijn (b. 1942), Dutch architect
* Sophia Adriana de Bruijn (1816–1890), Dutch museum founder
* Ruben Jacob de Bruijn (b. 2003), Dutch clothing designer

## Mathematics

In mathematics, de Bruijn may refer to one of the following topics named after Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn:

* De Bruijn sequence, a cyclic sequence of a given alphabet such that every length n subsequence appears exactly once
   * De Bruijn torus, a generalization of the De Bruijn sequence in two dimensions
   * De Bruijn graph, a graph representing overlaps between sequences of symbols
* De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (disambiguation)
   * De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (graph theory), a theorem about graph coloring
   * De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (incidence geometry), a theorem about lines determined by points in the projective plane
* De Bruijn index, a nameless representation of the λ calculus
* De Bruijn–Newman constant, Λ, a mathematical constant related to the Riemann zeta-function
* De Bruijn notation, a syntax for terms in the λ calculus
* De Bruijn's theorem, a theorem regarding the packing of bricks into boxes
