* 31 March 1848, † 10 May 1941
Diederik Johannes Korteweg was born on 31 March 1848 in ‘sHertogenbosch, Netherlands. Diederik Korteweg was a Dutch mathematician with wide interests, now best-known as the joint discoverer of the Korteweg-de Vries equation for solitary waves. Diederik Johannes Korteweg died on 10 May 1941 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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