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Jean Bourgain
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| Born | 28 February 1954 Ostend, Belgium
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| Died | 22 December 2018 (aged 64) Bonheiden, Belgium
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| Alma mater | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Known for | Analytic number theory Harmonic analysis Ergodic theory Banach spaces Partial differential equations |
| Awards | Salem Prize (1983) Ostrowski Prize (1991) Fields Medal (1994) Shaw Prize (2010) Crafoord Prize (2012) Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2017) Steele Prize (2018) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Freddy Delbaen |
| Doctoral students | James Colliander Péter Varjú |
| Influences | Laurent Schwartz Bernard Maurey Gilles Pisier Vitali Milman |
| Influenced | Terence Tao |
Jean, Baron Bourgain (born February 28, 1954 – died December 22, 2018) was a brilliant mathematician from Belgium. He was famous for his amazing work in many areas of math. In 1994, he won a very important award called the Fields Medal for his discoveries. This award is like the Nobel Prize for mathematicians!
Jean Bourgain's Life
Jean Bourgain earned his PhD degree from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1977. After that, he taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From 1985 to 1995, he was a professor in France. Later, he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1994 until 2018. He also helped edit a famous math magazine called Annals of Mathematics. From 2012 to 2014, he was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
What Kind of Math Did He Do?
Bourgain's research covered many different parts of mathematical analysis. This is a big area of math that deals with numbers, functions, and limits. He studied the geometry of Banach spaces, which are special kinds of spaces in math. He also worked on harmonic analysis, analytic number theory, and combinatorics.
He also explored ergodic theory and partial differential equations. These are important for understanding how things change over time. Later in his career, he also studied group theory. Jean Bourgain wrote or helped write more than 500 math papers. He passed away on December 22, 2018, in Belgium.
Awards and Honors
Jean Bourgain received many awards during his career. The most famous one was the Fields Medal in 1994. This award is given to outstanding mathematicians under 40 years old.
In 2009, he became a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2010, he won the Shaw Prize in Mathematics. This prize honors people who have made major breakthroughs in their fields.
In 2012, he and another famous mathematician, Terence Tao, received the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics. This was also from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2015, the King of Belgium, Philippe of Belgium, made him a baron. This is a special title of honor. He also received the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2017 and the Steele Prize in 2018.
See also
In Spanish: Jean Bourgain para niños
