title: De Bruijn
text: # 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
  