The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists Nieuwland as being the doctoral advisor of one student at Leiden, Simon Speijert van der Eyk, through whom he has over 600 academic descendants.
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Before or around this time, Nieuwland had found the largest cube that can pass through a hole in a unit cube, a problem that had been posed 100 years earlier by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and given an inferior solution by English mathematician John Wallis.
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His father began teaching him mathematics, but the young Pieter soon outpaced his father, and the mathematician Henricus Aeneae continued his education.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Pieter Brueghel | Pieter Mulier II | Pieter Hintjens | Pieter Wispelwey | Pieter Willem Korthals | Pieter Vreede | Pieter van Vollenhoven | Pieter van Musschenbroek | Pieter Vanderlyn | Pieter Teyler van der Hulst | Pieter Snapper | Pieter Rossouw | Pieter Langendijk | Pieter Kasteleyn | Pieter Hugo | Pieter Feith | Pieter de Ring | Pieter de Hooch | Pieter Bourke | Pieter Bleeker | Pieter Aertsen | Julius Nieuwland | Sandra van Nieuwland | Pieter Zeeman | Pieter van der Hulst | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Pieter Seelaar | Pieter Rijke | Pieter Paulus |