Henk Bos in memoriam: with notes from his Nachlass

Abstract

Historian of mathematics Henk Bos (17 July 1940 Enschede – 12 February 2024 Amsterdam) spent his career at Utrecht University, where he started as an undergraduate student in 1961, obtained his PhD in 1973, and retired as professor in 2005. The International Commission on the History of Mathematics awarded Henk the highest prize in the field — the Kenneth O. May Medal — in 2005. In this article, Viktor Blåsjö, one of the descendants of the research group Henk founded, reflects on Henk’s scholarly legacy.