Haïm Brezis
Haïm Brezis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 June 1944 |
| Died | 7 July 2024 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Known for | Brezis–Gallouet inequality Brezis–Lieb lemma Bony-Brezis theorem |
| Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (2024) Euler Lecture (1997) Eugene Catalan Prize (1990) Ampère Prize (1985) ICM Speaker (1974) Peccot Lectures (1973/1974) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Pierre and Marie Curie University |
| Doctoral advisor | Gustave Choquet Jacques-Louis Lions |
| Doctoral students | Abbas Bahri Henri Berestycki Jean-Michel Coron Jesús Ildefonso Díaz Pierre-Louis Lions Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez |
Haïm Brezis (1 June 1944 – 7 July 2024) was a French mathematician, who mainly worked in functional analysis and partial differential equations.
Biography
[edit]Born in Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal, France. Brezis was the son of a Romanian immigrant father, who had come to France in the 1930s, and a Jewish mother who had fled from the Netherlands. His wife, Michal Govrin, a native Israeli, works as a novelist, poet, and theater director.[1] Brezis received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1972 under the supervision of Gustave Choquet. He was a professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and a visiting distinguished professor at Rutgers University. He was a member of the Academia Europaea (1988) and a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (2003). In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2] He held honorary doctorates from several universities including National Technical University of Athens.[3] Brezis is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[4] He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2013 and 2014. In 2024 he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement of the AMS.
Brezis died in Jerusalem on 7 July 2024, at the age of 80.[5]
Works
[edit]- Opérateurs maximaux monotones et semi-groupes de contractions dans les espaces de Hilbert (1973)
- Analyse Fonctionnelle. Théorie et Applications (1983)
- Haïm Brezis. Un mathématicien juif. Entretien Avec Jacques Vauthier. Collection Scientifiques & Croyants. Editions Beauchesne, 1999. ISBN 978-2-7010-1335-0, ISBN 2-7010-1335-6
- Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations, Springer; 1st Edition. edition (10 November 2010), ISBN 978-0-387-70913-0, ISBN 0-387-70913-4
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dalia Karpel (18 April 2002). "Oh my love, comely as Jerusalem". Haaretz Daily Newspaper. Retrieved 21 October 2010.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ^ "DHC National Technical University of Athens".
- ^ "List of ISI highly cited researchers".
- ^ "Décès de Haïm Brézis". Société Mathématique de France. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
External links
[edit]- Biographical sketch (in French)
- List of publications on the website of Rutgers University
- 1944 births
- 2024 deaths
- Jewish French scientists
- People from Cantal
- 20th-century French mathematicians
- French mathematical analysts
- University of Paris alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Paris
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Members of Academia Europaea
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- French people of Romanian descent
- 20th-century French Jews
- French Orthodox Jews
- PDE theorists
- Functional analysts