title: Frederik Schuh
text: # Frederik Schuh
  
  Frederik Schuh (7 February 1875, Amsterdam – 6 January 1966, The Hague) was a Dutch mathematician.
  
  ## Career
  
  He completed his PhD in algebraic geometry from Amsterdam University in 1905, where his advisor was Diederik Johannes Korteweg. He taught at the Technische Hoogeschool at Delft (1907–1909 and 1916–1945) and at Groningen (1909–1916).
  
  ## Works
  
  He was the inventor of the Chomp game and wrote The Master Book of Mathematical Recreations (1943).
  
  