Nationality French Role Mathematician | Name Haim Brezis | |
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Doctoral students Henri BerestyckiJean-Michel CoronAlain HarauxPierre-Louis LionsJuan Luis Vazquez SuarezAbbas Bahri Books Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations Similar People Louis Nirenberg, Jacques‑Louis Lions, Jean‑Michel Coron, Pierre‑Louis Lions, Henri Berestycki | ||
Haim brezis henri poincare a founding father of the modern theory of pdes
Haïm Brezis (born 1 June 1944) is a French mathematician who works in functional analysis and partial differential equations.
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- Haim brezis henri poincare a founding father of the modern theory of pdes
- Haim Brezis 21 September 2016
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Haim Brezis - 21 September 2016
Biography
Born in Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal, France. Brezis is the son of a Romanian immigrant father, who came to France in the 1930s, and a Jewish mother who fled from the Netherlands. His wife, Michal Govrin, a native Israeli, works as a novelist, poet, and theater director. Brezis received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1972 under the supervision of Gustave Choquet. He is currently a Professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He is 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. He holds honorary doctorates from several universities including National Technical University of Athens. Brezis is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
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