Aise Johan de Jong (born 30 January 1966) is a Dutch mathematician born in Belgium. He currently is a professor of mathematics at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. His research interests include

arithmetic geometry In mathematics, arithmetic geometry is roughly the application of techniques from algebraic geometry to problems in number theory. Arithmetic geometry is centered around Diophantine geometry, the study of rational points of algebraic variety, alg ...

and

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...

Education

De Jong attended high school in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

, obtained his master's degree at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

and earned his doctorate at the

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

in 1992, under supervision of

Frans Oort Frans Oort (born 17 July 1935) is a Dutch mathematician who specializes in algebraic geometry. Career Oort studied from 1952 to 1958 at Leiden University, where he graduated with a thesis on elliptic curves. He received his doctorate in 1961 in ...

and Joseph H. M. Steenbrink.

Career

In 1996, de Jong developed his theory of alterations which was used by

Fedor Bogomolov Fedor Alekseyevich Bogomolov (born 26 September 1946) (Фёдор Алексеевич Богомолов) is a Russian and American mathematician, known for his research in algebraic geometry and number theory. Bogomolov worked at the Steklov I ...

and Tony Pantev (1996) and

Dan Abramovich Dan Abramovich, born in Haifa, is a mathematician working in the fields of algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry. As of 2019, he holds the title of L. Herbert Ballou University Professor at Brown University, and he is an Elected Fellow of ...

and de Jong (1997) to prove resolution of singularities in characteristic 0 and to prove a weaker result for varieties of all dimensions in characteristic ''p'' which is strong enough to act as a substitute for resolution for many purposes. In 2005, de Jong started the

Stacks Project The Stacks Project is an open source collaborative mathematics textbook writing project with the aim to cover "algebraic stacks and the algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivari ...

, "an open source textbook and reference work on algebraic stacks and the

needed to define them." The book that the project has generated currently runs to more than 7500 pages as of July 2022.

Awards and honors

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

in Berlin. He won the

Cole Prize The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of twenty-two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number ...

in 2000 for his theory of alterations.2000 Cole Prize
/ref> In the same year, De Jong became a correspondent of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

. In 2022 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition.AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition 2022
/ref>

Personal life

De Jong lives in New York City with his wife,

Cathy O'Neil Catherine ("Cathy") Helen O'Neil is an American mathematician, data scientist, and author. She is the author of the ''New York Times'' best-seller '' Weapons of Math Destruction'', and opinion columns in Bloomberg View. O'Neil was active in th ...

, and their three sons.

Selected works

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References

External links

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Website at Columbia UniversityThe Stacks Project
1966 births Living people 20th-century Dutch mathematicians 21st-century Dutch mathematicians Leiden University alumni Radboud University Nijmegen alumni De Jong, Aise Johan Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences De Jong, Aise Johan De Jong, Aise Johan Arithmetic geometers {{Netherlands-scientist-stub