Jean Bourgain
| Jean Bourgain | |
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Jean Bourgain
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| Born |
28 February 1954 Ostend, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Institute for Advanced Study University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Doctoral advisor | Freddy Delbaen |
| Doctoral students | James Colliander |
| Known for |
Analytic number theory Harmonic analysis Ergodic theory Banach spaces Partial differential equations |
| Influences |
Laurent Schwartz Bernard Maurey Gilles Pisier Vitali Milman |
| Influenced | Terence Tao |
| Notable awards |
Salem Prize (1983) Ostrowski Prize (1991) Fields Medal (1994) Shaw Prize (2010) Crafoord Prize (2012) Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2017) |
Jean, Baron Bourgain (born 28 February 1954) is a Belgian mathematician. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and, from 1985 until 1995, professor at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques at Bures-sur-Yvette in France, and since 1994 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is currently an editor for the Annals of Mathematics. From 2012–2014, he was appointed a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
Bourgain 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 2000 Bourgain connected the Kakeya problem to arithmetic combinatorics.
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