Breakthrough Prize

In this video from the 2017 Breakthrough Prize Symposium, Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics and 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Laureate, discusses unity in mathematics through an explanation of the...

Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics, sat down with National Geographic after winning the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Watch the interview here.

The biggest prize payday in science came around again Sunday evening when the Breakthrough Foundation handed out more than $25 million in its annual prizes to more than a thousand physicists, life scientists and mathematicians.

Jean Bourgain, IBM von...

Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics, has received the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, for “multiple transformative contributions to analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations, high-dimensional...