Answer by Gil Kalai for Jean Bourgain's relatively lesser known significant...
One body of works which I found mind Boggling is related to the question: "Can you hear the degree of a map". I think the general theme is about the connection between Fourier analysis and algebraic...
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There are many accounts of the truly exceptional breadth, depth and ingenuity of Jean's work and the quickness of his mind. These accounts are not exaggerations or embellishments. Jean collected nearly...
View ArticleAnswer by George Shakan for Jean Bourgain's relatively lesser known...
His work with Dilworth, Ford, Konyagin, and Kutzarova solved an open problem in compressed image sensing. Thanks to this blog post of Tao from 2007, we can get a feel of the general mentality before...
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Bourgain has made so many contributions to analysis. I will describe just a few of my favorites in harmonic analysis, and mention a few in number theory. First to cover my bases, I will name what I...
View ArticleAnswer by Yemon Choi for Jean Bourgain's relatively lesser known significant...
It follows from results in Bourgain's Acta 1984 paper (but I have the impression these results were announced some years ealier?) that the dual of the disc algebra $A({\bf D})$ has cotype 2; and every...
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Jean Bourgain passed away on December 22, 2018.A great mathematician is no longer with us.Terry Tao has blogged about Bourgain's death and mentioned some of his more recent significant contributions,...
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