Haïm Brezis (born 1 June 1944) is a French

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, who mainly works in

functional analysis Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. Inner product space#Definition, inner product, Norm (mathematics)#Defini ...

and

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...

Biography

Born in

Riom-ès-Montagnes Riom-ès-Montagnes (; Occitan: ''Riòm de las Montanhas'') is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. Geography Location Main town of the "Pays Gentiane", the city is located northwest of the department of Cantal, in t ...

Cantal Cantal (; oc, Cantal or ) is a Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region of France, with its Prefectures in France, prefecture in Aurillac. Its other principal towns are Saint-Flour, Cantal, Saint ...

, France. Brezis is the son of a

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immigrant father, who came to

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in the 1930s, and a Jewish mother who fled from the

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. His wife,

Michal Govrin Michal Govrin ( he, מיכל גוברין; November 24, 1950) is an Israeli author, poet and theater director. Biography Michal Govrin was born and raised in Tel Aviv to a father who was part of the Third Aliyah and one of the founders of kibbu ...

, a native Israeli, works as a novelist, poet, and theater director. Brezis received his Ph.D. from the

University of Paris , image_name = Coat of arms of the University of Paris.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of Arms , latin_name = Universitas magistrorum et scholarium Parisiensis , motto = ''Hic et ubique terrarum'' (Latin) , mottoeng = Here and a ...

in 1972 under the supervision of

Gustave Choquet Gustave Choquet (; 1 March 1915 – 14 November 2006) was a French mathematician. Choquet was born in Solesmes, Nord. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creati ...

. He is currently a professor at the

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

and a visiting distinguished professor at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

. He is a member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

(1988) and a foreign associate of the

United States National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

(2003). In 2012 he became a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. He holds honorary doctorates from several universities including

National Technical University of Athens The National (Metsovian) Technical University of Athens (NTUA; el, Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο, ''National Metsovian Polytechnic''), sometimes known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest higher education institution ...

. Brezis is listed as an

ISI highly cited researcher The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956. ISI offered scientometric and bibliographic database services. Its specialty was citation indexing and analysis, ...

. He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the

Infosys Prize The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to re ...

in 2013 and 2014.

Works

*''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. , * ''Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations'', Springer; 1st Edition. edition (November 10, 2010), ,

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External links

Biographical sketch (in French)
on the website of

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brezis, Haim 1944 births Living people Jewish French scientists People from Cantal 20th-century French mathematicians Mathematical analysts University of Paris alumni University of Paris faculty 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

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