Jean Bourgain#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2574 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.ias.edu/people/faculty/bourgain |
Jean Bourgain passed away December 22, 2018.
Positions Held
- since 2010 IBM Von Neumann Professor IAS
- since 1994 Professor at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
- 1985 - 1995 Professor a IHES (France)
- 1985 - 2005 J.L. Doob Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois,USA
- 1981 - 1985 Professor at Free University of Brussels,Belgium
- 1977 Ph.D. Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Functional analysts
- Partial differential equations
- Sophisticated combinatorics
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Langevin Prize (French Academy)
- 1991 Ostrowski Prize, Ostrowski Foundation (Basel-Switzerland)
- Fields Medal, ICM Zurich (1994)
- 2010 Shaw Prize in Mathematics
- 2012 Crafoord Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2016 The 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
- 2017 The 2018 Leroy P. Steele Prize
- 2000 Foreign Member of the Polish Academy
- 2000 Associé Etranger de l’Academie des Sciences
- 2008 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2009 Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Foreign Associate National Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Made a baron by king Philippe of Belgium
- 1991 Dr. H.C. Hebrew University
- 1994 Dr. H.C. Université Marne-la-Vallee (France)
- 1995 Dr. H.C. Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
