Jean Bourgain
Jean Bourgain (28 February 1954 – 22 December 2018) was a Belgian mathematician. He was a professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Institut des hautes études scientifiques at Bures-sur-Yvette in France. From 1994 until his death he has worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[1] He was an editor for the Annals of Mathematics.
Jean Bourgain | |
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 Jean Bourgain | |
| Born | 28 February 1954 |
| Died | 22 December 2018 (aged 64) Bonheiden, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Alma mater | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Known for | Analytic number theory Harmonic analysis Ergodic theory Banach spaces Partial differential equations |
| Awards | Salem Prize (1983) Fields Medal (1994) Shaw Prize (2010) Crafoord Prize (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Doctoral students | James Colliander |
| Influences | Laurent Schwartz Bernard Maurey Gilles Pisier Vitali Milman |
| Influenced | Terence Tao |
He received his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1977.
He received the Fields Medal in 1994. In 2009 Bourgain was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[2] In 2010 he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematics.[3] In 2012 he and Terence Tao received the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[4]
Bourgain died on 22 December 2018 in Bonheiden, Belgium at the age of 64.[5]
References
- ↑ Biography: Jean Bourgain Archived 2011-08-27 at the Wayback Machine, University of St Andrews, Scotland
- ↑ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Many new members elected to the Academy Archived 2018-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, press release on 12 February 2009
- ↑ "Shaw Prize Press Release". Archived from the original on 2010-07-04. Retrieved 2012-06-28.
- ↑ Crafoord Press Release Archived 2012-12-27 at the Wayback Machine on 19 January 2012
- ↑ Décès du mathématicien Jean Bourgain (in French)