Jacob Korevaar
Dutch mathematician (born 1923)
Jacob Korevaar | |
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Born | (1923-01-25) 25 January 1923 (age 101) Lange Ruige Weide |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | University of Leiden |
Relatives | Nijs Korevaar (brother) |
Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1989) Lester R. Ford Award (1987) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Amsterdam University of California San Diego University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Doctoral advisor | Hendrik Kloosterman |
Jacob "Jaap" Korevaar (born 25 January 1923) is a Dutch mathematician. He was part of the faculty of the University of California San Diego and University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as the University of Amsterdam (Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics).
Korevaar became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975.[1] He won the 1987 Lester R. Ford Award, and the 1989 Chauvenet Prize, for an essay on Louis de Branges de Bourcia's proof of the Bieberbach conjecture.[2] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
Korevaar is the older brother of the Olympic water polo player Nijs Korevaar.[1] He turned 100 on 25 January 2023.[4]
References
- ^ "Jaap Korevaar". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ^ Ludwig Bieberbach's Conjecture and Its Proof by Louis de Branges, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 93, 1986, pp. 505–514 online text
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-07.
- ^ "Bussumer en wiskundige Jacob Korevaar blaast honderd kaarsjes uit". BussumsNieuws (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 January 2023.
- Prof. dr. J. Korevaar, 1923 - at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website
External links
- Jacob Korevaar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Chauvenet Prize recipients
- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer