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Jean Louis, baron Bourgain 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.

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science · Belgian mathematician (1954–2018) · mathematician · university teacher · also Jean Bourgain, Bourgain

Born 28 February 1954 · Died 22 December 2018 · Q260802

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Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2018).
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Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2017).
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2024· 1 entry

Jul 30, 2024Documented record69% confidence

Futurism: jean bourgain

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2018· 3 entries

Dec 22, 2018Documented record86% confidence

Died 2018-12-22.

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Jun 15, 2018Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2018).

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Received the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement

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2017· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2017Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2017).

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Received the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

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2015· 1 entry

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Was made a baron by King Philippe of Belgium

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2012· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2012Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Crafoord Prize in Mathematics (2012).

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And Terence Tao received the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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2010· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2010Documented record84% confidence

Awarded The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2010).

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Received the Shaw Prize in Mathematics

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2009· 1 entry

2009Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Bourgain was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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2000· 1 entry

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Connected the Kakeya problem to arithmetic combinatorics

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1994· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1994Documented record84% confidence

Won Fields medal (1994).

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Jun 15, 1994Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée (1994).

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1994Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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

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1991· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1991Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Ostrowski Prize (1991).

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1990· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1990Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Élie Cartan Prize (1990).

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1985· 1 entry

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Proved Bourgain's embedding theorem in metric dimension reduction, which states that every metric space can be embedded into an

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1983· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Salem Prize (1983).

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1954· 1 entry

Feb 28, 1954Documented record86% confidence

Born 1954-02-28.

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