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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 217,066 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jean Bourgain is the 617th most popular mathematician (up from 651st in 2019), the 523rd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 534th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Bourgain ranks 617 out of 1,004. Before him are Richard Montague, Rózsa Péter, Carl Adam Petri, Jan Śniadecki, Olga Taussky-Todd, and Michael Artin. After him are Robert Langlands, Pingala, William Burnside, Edward Arthur Milne, William Whiston, and Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Jean Bourgain ranks 235. Before him are Philippa Gregory, James Pickens Jr., Sam J. Jones, Sonia Sotomayor, Luis Royo, and Andrzej Lepper. After him are Bouasone Bouphavanh, Wolfgang Dremmler, Ivo Van Damme, Eric Johnson, Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, and Mark Tornillo. Among people deceased in 2018, Jean Bourgain ranks 245. Before him are Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Tomás Maldonado, Claribel Alegría, Kader Khan, Oliver Ivanović, and Marijan Beneš. After him are Theo-Ben Gurirab, Alexander Zakharchenko, Elias M. Stein, Miguel Obando y Bravo, Sergei Mavrodi, and Morgan Tsvangirai.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jean Bourgain ranks 523 out of 1,190. Before him are Walthère Frère-Orban (1812), Ulu Grosbard (1929), Charles de Tornaco (1927), Jules Malou (1810), Cécile de France (1975), and Sandra Kim (1972). After him are Henri Coppens (1930), Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948), Ivo Van Damme (1954), Francis Goya (1946), Jan Fabre (1958), and Jean Aerts (1907).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Jean Bourgain ranks 9. Before him are Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), Pierre Deligne (1944), Adriaan van Roomen (1561), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), and David Ruelle (1935). After him are Elias M. Stein (1931), Ingrid Daubechies (1954), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), and Jacques Tits (1930).

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