Jacob "Jaap" Korevaar (born 25 January 1923) is a Dutch mathematician. He was part of the faculty of the

University of California San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

and

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, as well as the

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(

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). Korevaar became a member of the

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in 1975. He won the 1987

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, and the 1989

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, for an essay on Louis de Branges de Bourcia's proof of the

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. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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. Korevaar is the older brother of the Olympic

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player Nijs Korevaarbr>
He centenarian, turned 100 on 25 January 2023.

References

Prof. dr. J. Korevaar, 1923 -
at the

''Album Academicum'' website

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Korevaar, Jacob 1923 births Living people 20th-century Dutch mathematicians 21st-century Dutch mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam University of California, San Diego faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Reeuwijk Dutch emigrants to the United States Dutch centenarians Men centenarians