Jean Bourgain
Professor
School of Mathematics

Jean Bourgain’s work touches on several central topics of mathematical analysis: the geometry of Banach spaces, convexity in high dimensions, harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, and nonlinear partial differential equations from mathematical physics. He has made outstanding contributions across a range of topics and proved some remarkable results, solving a longstanding problem in Banach space theory and harmonic analysis, the L(p) problem. His work has had important consequences in number theory and theoretical computer science, and he has made innovative contributions in ergodic theory. In Hamiltonian dynamics, he developed the theory of invariant measures and quasi-periodicity for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

Ph.D., Free University of Brussels, 1977; Research Fellow, Belgium National Science Foundation, 1975-81; Professor, Free University of Brussels, 1981-85; J.L. Doob Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1985-; Professor, IHÉS (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques), 1985-95; Lady Davis Professor of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988-; Fairchild Distinguished Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1991-; Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, 1994-; Empain Prize, 1983; A. De Leeuw Damry-Bourlart Prize, 1985; Langevin Prize, 1985; E. Cartan Prize, 1990; Ostrowski Prize, 1991; Fields Medal, 1994; Foreign Member, Académie des Sciences (France), Polish Academy.