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Jean Bourgain

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Birthplace: Ostende, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium
Death: December 22, 2018 (64)
Bonheiden, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium (pancreatic cancer)
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About Jean Bourgain

Jean Bourgain (28 February 1954 – 22 December 2018) was a Belgian mathematician. He was, from 1985 until 1995, a professor at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques at Bures-sur-Yvette in France, and since 1994 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Awards

  • Salem Prize (1983)
  • Ostrowski Prize (1991)
  • Fields Medal (1994)
  • Shaw Prize (2010)
  • Crafoord Prize (2012)
  • Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2017)
  • Steele Prize (2018)
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Jean Bourgain's Timeline

1954
February 28, 1954
Ostende, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium
2018
December 22, 2018
Age 64
Bonheiden, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium