Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
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... Wikipedia
Born: February 28, 1954, Ostend, Belgium
Died: December 22, 2018 (age 64 years), Bonheiden, Belgium
Awards: Salem Prize (1983), Ostrowski Prize (1991), Fields Medal (1994), and more
Doctoral advisor: Freddy Delbaen
Doctoral students: James Colliander; Péter Varjú
Fields: Mathematical analysis