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Jean Bourgain’s work touches on many central topics of mathematical analysis: the geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, spectral problems, and nonlinear partial differential equations from mathematical physics. His contributions solved longstanding problems in convexity theory and harmonic analysis such as Mahler’s conjecture and the lambda-p set problem. His work also had important consequences in theoretical computer science and on exponential sums in analytic number theory. In Hamiltonian dynamics, he developed the theory of invariant Gibbs measures and quasi-periodicity for the Schrödinger equation.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ph.D. 1977, Habilitation 1979; National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium, Research Fellow 1975–81 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Professor 1981–85; University of Illinois, J. L. Doob Professor of Mathematics 1985–2006; Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Professor 1985–95; Institute for Advanced Study, Professor 1994–2011, IBM von Neumann Professor 2011–; Academia Europaea, Foreign Member; Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, Foreign Member; National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate; Polish Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member; National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium, Empain Prize 1983, A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize 1985; Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, Langevin Prize 1985, Élie Cartan Prize 1990; Ostrowski Prize 1991; Fields Medal 1994; Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Vernadsky Gold Medal 2010; Shaw Prize in Mathematics 2010; Crafoord Prize in Mathematics 2012
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