Haïm Brezis
Haïm Brezis is a French mathematician who works in functional analysis and partial differential equations.Biography
Born in Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal, France. Brezis is the son of a Romanian immigrant father, who came to France in the 1930s, and a Jewish mother who fled from the Netherlands. His wife, Michal Govrin, a native Israeli, works as a novelist, poet, and theater director. Brezis received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1972 under the supervision of Gustave Choquet. He is currently a Professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He holds honorary doctorates from several universities including National Technical University of Athens. Brezis is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.Works
- Opérateurs maximaux monotones et semi-groupes de contractions dans les espaces de Hilbert
- Analyse Fonctionnelle. Théorie et Applications
- 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,,
