Abbas Bahri facts for kids

Abbas Bahri (born January 1, 1955 – died January 10, 2016) was a brilliant mathematician from Tunisia. He won important awards like the Fermat Prize and the Langevin Prize for his work in mathematics. He was also a professor at Rutgers University, a famous university in the United States.

He mostly studied advanced math topics like the calculus of variations (which looks at how things change), partial differential equations (equations with many changing parts), and differential geometry (the study of shapes and spaces using calculus). He created a special method called "critical points at infinity." This method was a big step forward in the calculus of variations.

About Abbas Bahri

Abbas Bahri finished his high school education in Tunisia. Then, he went to France for his university studies. In 1974, he was the first person from Tunisia to attend the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. This is a very prestigious school.

In 1981, he earned his PhD from Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University. His main teacher was a famous French mathematician named Haïm Brezis. After getting his PhD, he visited the University of Chicago to continue his research.

In October 1981, Bahri started teaching mathematics at the University of Tunis. From 1984 to 1993, he also taught at the École Polytechnique. In 1988, he became a full professor at Rutgers University. At Rutgers, he led the Center for Nonlinear Analysis from 1988 to 2002.

His Life Story

Abbas Bahri married Diana Nunziante on June 20, 1991. His wife was from Italy. They had four children together. Abbas Bahri passed away on January 10, 2016, after being sick for a long time. He was 61 years old.

Awards and Achievements

In 1989, Abbas Bahri won the Fermat Prize for Mathematics. He shared this award with Kenneth Alan Ribet. They won it because Bahri introduced new ways to solve problems in the calculus of variations. This was a very important contribution to mathematics.