What is Jean Bourgain?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Jean Bourgain |image = Jean Bourgain.jpg |caption = Jean Bourgain |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1954|02|28}} |birth_place = [[Ostend]], [[Belgium]] |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2018|12|22|1954|2|28}} |death_place = [[Bonheiden]], Belgium |nationality = [[Belgians|Belgian]] |field = [[Mathematics]] |work_institutions = [[Institute for Advanced Study]]<br>[[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] |alma_mater = [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Freddy Delbaen]] |doctoral_students = [[James Colliander]] |known_for = [[Analytic number theory]]<br>[[Harmonic analysis]]<br>[[Ergodic theory]]<br>[[Banach space]]s<br>[[Partial differential equations]] |influences = [[Laurent Schwartz]]<br>[[Bernard Maurey]]<br>[[Gilles Pisier]]<br>[[Vitali Milman]] |influenced = [[Terence Tao]] |prizes = [[Salem Prize]] (1983)<br>[[Fields Medal]] (1994)<br>[[Shaw Prize]] (2010)<br>[[Crafoord Prize]] (2012) }} '''Jean Bourgain''' (28 February 1954 &ndash; 22 December 2018) was a [[Belgians|Belgian]] [[mathematician]]. He was a professor at [[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] and [[Institut des hautes études scientifiques]] at [[Bures-sur-Yvette]] in France. From 1994 until his death he has worked at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey]].<ref>[http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Bourgain.html Biography: Jean Bourgain] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827033938/http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Bourgain.html |date=2011-08-27 }}, [[University of St Andrews]], Scotland</ref> He was an editor for the [[Annals of Mathematics]]. He received his Ph.D. from the [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] in 1977. He received the [[Fields Medal]] in 1994. In 2008 he was elected a foreign member of the [[Academia Europaea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Bourgain_Jean |archive