Jean Bourgain
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- Born
- 1954
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Publications mathematiques de l'ihes
- Banach spaces with a unique unconditional basis, up to permutation
- Mathematical aspects of nonlinear dispersive equations
- Global solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations
- Global Solutions of Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations (Colloquium Publications (Amer Mathematical Soc))
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,908x
- Situated Learning
· 1991 · cited 30,548x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,255x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,677x
- Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,861x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-02-28 ) 28 February 1954, Ostend , Belgium
- Died
- 22 December 2018 (2018-12-22) (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)
- 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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Ostend
- Place of death
- Bonheiden
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Université libre de Bruxelles
- Employer
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- French
- Noble title
- baron
- Field of work
- partial differential equation
- Image
- Jean Bourgain (vertical crop).jpg
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- Erdős number
- 2
- date of birth
- 1954-02-28
- Commons category
- Jean Bourgain
- date of death
- 2018-12-22
- name in native language
- Jean Bourgain
- influenced by
- Laurent Schwartz
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Louis, baron Bourgain ( French: [buʁɡɛ̃]; (1954-02-28)28 February 1954 – (2018-12-22)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.
Biography
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