Haïm Brezis | |
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Born |
Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal |
1 June 1944
Nationality | French |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Pierre and Marie Curie University |
Alma mater | University of Paris |
Doctoral advisor |
Gustave Choquet Jacques-Louis Lions |
Doctoral students |
Abbas Bahri Henri Berestycki Jean-Michel Coron Jesús Ildefonso Díaz Alain Haraux Pierre-Louis Lions Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez |
Known for | Works in functional analysis and partial differential equations |
Haïm Brezis (born 1 June 1944) is a French mathematician who works in functional analysis and partial differential equations.
Born in Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal, France. Brezis is the son of a Romanian immigrant father, who came to France in the 1930s, and a Jewish mother who fled from the Netherlands. His wife, Michal Govrin, a native Israeli, works as a novelist, poet, and theater director. Brezis received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1972 under the supervision of Gustave Choquet. He is currently a Professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (1988) and a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (2003). In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He holds honorary doctorates from several universities including National Technical University of Athens. Brezis is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.