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Jean Bourgain
Jean 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[1]. He is currently an editor for the prestigious Annals of Mathematics.
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 2000 Bourgain connected the Kakeya problem to arithmetic combinatorics.[2][3]
In 2009 Bourgain was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[4]
In 2010 he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematics.[5]
In 2012 he and Terence Tao received the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[6]
References
^ Biography: Jean Bourgain, University of St Andrews, Scotland
^ J. Bourgain, Harmonic analysis and combinatorics: How much may they contribute to each other?, Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, IMU/Amer. Math. Soc., 2000, pp. 13–32.
^ Tao, Terence (March 2001). "From Rotating Needles to Stability of Waves: Emerging Connections between Combinatorics, Analysis and PDE". Notices of the AMS 48 (3): 297–303.
^ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Many new members elected to the Academy, press release on 12 February 2009
^ Shaw Prize Press Release
^ Crafoord Press Release on 19 January 2012
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, University of St Andrews..
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