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MATHEMATICIAN

Jean Bourgain

1954 - 2018

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Jean Louis, baron Bourgain (French: [buʁɡɛ̃]; (1954-02-28)28 February 1954 – (2018-12-22)22 December 2018) was a Belgian mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Bourgain has received more than 205,944 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Bourgain is the 654th most popular mathematician (down from 630th in 2019), the 535th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 516th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Bourgain ranks 654 out of 823Before him are Edward Routh, David Gregory, Mikio Sato, Eliyahu Rips, Jordanus de Nemore, and Efim Zelmanov. After him are Otto Toeplitz, Mark Krein, Sulochana Gadgil, Axel Thue, Bernt Michael Holmboe, and Nikoloz Muskhelishvili.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Jean Bourgain ranks 248Before him are Eliseo Salazar, Bachendri Pal, Jens Galschiøt, Ricardo Ferretti, Valery Gazzaev, and Joseph Ngute. After him are Tim O'Reilly, Karl-Heinz Körbel, Lawrence M. Krauss, Ilan Pappé, Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria, and Angelo De Donatis. Among people deceased in 2018, Jean Bourgain ranks 268Before him are Sergio Pitol, Toshiko Fujita, Ringo Lam, David Douglas Duncan, Verne Troyer, and Robby Müller. After him are Jacques Higelin, Vinnie Paul, Theo-Ben Gurirab, Lucho Gatica, Kader Khan, and Sven-Olov Sjödelius.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jean Bourgain ranks 535 out of 1,019Before him are Jules Malou (1810), Léopold Anoul (1922), Félicien Marceau (1913), Léon Semmeling (1940), Jean de Bie (1892), and Georges Eekhoud (1854). After him are Lorenzo Staelens (1964), Paul-Émile Janson (1872), Edmond Leburton (1915), Louis Versyp (1908), Suzanne Lilar (1901), and Jean Dockx (1941).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Jean Bourgain ranks 12Before him are Adriaan van Roomen (1561), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), David Ruelle (1935), and Elias M. Stein (1931). After him are Ingrid Daubechies (1954).