2017 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics awarded to Jean Bourgain

December 5, 2016 - NAS foreign associate Jean Bourgain was awarded the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Jean Bourgain is IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. He was awarded the Prize for multiple transformative contributions to analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations, high-dimensional geometry and number theory.

This video was created by National Geographic and The Breakthrough Prize.

You can learn more about his work at http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20024877.html

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