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Jean Bourgain

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Belgian mathematician and Fields Medalist (1954-2018)

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Born
1954
Works
8

Top works

  • Publications mathematiques de l'ihes
  • Banach spaces with a unique unconditional basis, up to permutation
  • Mathematical aspects of nonlinear dispersive equations
  • Global solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations
  • Global Solutions of Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations (Colloquium Publications (Amer Mathematical Soc))

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Key facts

Born
( 1954-02-28 ) 28 February 1954, Ostend , Belgium
Died
22 December 2018 (2018-12-22) (aged 64) , Bonheiden , Belgium
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)
Fields
Mathematical analysis
Institutions
Institute for Advanced Study , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor
Freddy Delbaen
Doctoral students
James Colliander , Péter Varjú

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean Louis, baron Bourgain ( French: [buʁɡɛ̃]; (1954-02-28)28 February 1954 – (2018-12-22)22 December 2018) was a Belgian mathematician. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 in recognition of his work on several core topics of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, ergodic theory and nonlinear partial differential equations from mathematical physics.

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