Jean Bourgain
Jean Bourgain | |
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| Born | 28 February 1954 Ostend, Belgium |
| Died | 22 December 2018 (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) |
| Scientific career | |
| 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 |
Jean Louis, baron Bourgain (French: [buʁɡɛ̃]; 28 February 1954 – 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.