Haïm Brezis

Haïm Brezis
Born(1944-06-01)1 June 1944
Died7 July 2024(2024-07-07) (aged 80)
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known forBrezis–Gallouet inequality
Brezis–Lieb lemma
Bony-Brezis theorem
AwardsLeroy P. Steele Prize (2024)
Euler Lecture (1997)
Eugene Catalan Prize (1990)
Ampère Prize (1985)
ICM Speaker (1974)
Peccot Lectures (1973/1974)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPierre and Marie Curie University
Doctoral advisorGustave Choquet
Jacques-Louis Lions
Doctoral studentsAbbas Bahri
Henri Berestycki
Jean-Michel Coron
Jesús Ildefonso Díaz
Pierre-Louis Lions
Juan Luis Vázquez Suárez

Haïm Brezis (1 June 1944 – 7 July 2024) was a French mathematician, who mainly worked in functional analysis and partial differential equations.