- Source: Jacob Korevaar
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. 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. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Korevaar is the older brother of the Olympic water polo player Nijs Korevaar.[1] He turned 100 on 25 January 2023.
References
Prof. dr. J. Korevaar, 1923 - at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website
External links
Jacob Korevaar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jacob Korevaar
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- De Branges's theorem
- List of living centenarians
- List of people by Erdős number
- 1923
- Chauvenet Prize
- Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award
- Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics
