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 Jean Bourgain
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| Born | February 28, 1954 Ostend, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgium |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Alma mater | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Known for | Analytic number theory, harmonic analysis, Ergodic theory, Banach spaces |
| Notable awards | Fields Medal (1994) |
Jean Bourgain (b. February 28, 1954, Ostend) is a Belgian mathematician, noted as one of the greatest analysts of our time[citation needed]. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
He received his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1977.
His work is in various areas of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, analytic number theory, combinatorics, ergodic theory, partial differential equations, spectral theory and recently also in group theory. He has been recognised by a number of awards, most notably the Fields Medal in 1994.
In 2009, Bourgain was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[1]
References
- ^ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Many new members elected to the Academy, press release on February 12, 2009
External links
- MathSciNet: "Items authored by Bourgain, Jean."
- Jean Bourgain at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Jean Bourgain", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bourgain.html..
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