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Jean Bourgain
Connecting major problems across mathematical analysis.
Embedding theorem · Mean-value theorem
- Born
- 28 February 1954
- Birthplace
- Ostend
- Died
- 22 December 2018
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Jean Bourgain
Jean Bourgain was a Belgian mathematician whose work ranged across harmonic analysis, geometry, number theory and partial differential equations. He received the Fields Medal in 1994.
Early life
Doctoral studies
Completed his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1977.
Career
- 1985
IHÉS
Became a professor at the French research institute.
- 1994
Princeton
Joined the Institute for Advanced Study, where he worked until 2018.
Contributions
Embedding theorem
Established an influential result about representing finite metric spaces.
Mean-value theorem
Worked with Ciprian Demeter and Larry Guth on Vinogradov’s mean-value theorem.
Beyond work
Editorial service
Served as an editor of the Annals of Mathematics.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Biographical references ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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