Timeline for Jean Bourgain's relatively lesser known significant contributions
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:27 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 3, 2019 at 0:22 | comment | added | Mark Lewko | @mathworker: You're correct. It should be "every" and not "almost every". I've updated the answer. | |
| Feb 3, 2019 at 0:19 | history | edited | Mark Lewko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Typos correct, statement of spherical uniqueness theorem correct.
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| Feb 2, 2019 at 23:25 | comment | added | mathworker21 | @MarkLewko I thought there do exist $(a_n)_n$ not all $0$ with $\sum_{n \le N} a_ne(n\theta) \to 0$ for almost every $\theta$. math.stackexchange.com/questions/2539378/… | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 4:57 | comment | added | kodlu | @MarkLewko, this is indeed a great answer. Thanks. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 21:23 | comment | added | Mark Lewko | @Yemon: Jean and the Sidon paper did teach me a valuable lesson. The main result of the paper isn't optimal but we failed for some time to make further progress on the problem. I wanted to keep working on it but Jean pushed me to finish and publish it. In short order, Pisier obtained the sharp result and traveled the world talking about both works. In the end I got much more satisfaction from the interest that this has generate than I would have had I locked it away for months or years to obtain the optimal result. And, having seen Pisier's solution, I can safely say I would not have. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 20:13 | history | edited | Yemon Choi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added detail/correction on the MathReview quote
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 20:07 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Just in case you don't have MathSciNet access, I'm taking the liberty of mildly correcting your quote/paraphrase of the MathReview of the spherical summation paper. Hope that;s OK | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 15:45 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Seconding @kodlu - this is a fantastic answer, and I appreciate hearing some of the backstory to your Sidon paper with JB | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 12:01 | comment | added | kodlu | Thanks for this wonderful and detailed answer. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 11:20 | comment | added | K Hughes | Oops. I suppose I should have read his Fields Medal Laudatio before posting my answer. My favorite story about Bourgain, which I heard from a collaborator of his who claimed to have heard it from Bourgain, was that Bourgain went on a two week bender disappointed after not receiving the Fields Medal in 1990 (the previous time before he won it), then he came back and decided to keep crushing it. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 9:34 | history | edited | Mark Lewko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 14 characters in body
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| S Jan 3, 2019 at 9:25 | history | answered | Mark Lewko | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Jan 3, 2019 at 9:25 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Mark Lewko |