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Dutch mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aise Johan de Jong (born 30 January 1966)[1] is a Dutch mathematician and professor of mathematics at Columbia University. His research interests include arithmetic geometry and algebraic geometry. He maintains the Stacks Project.
Aise Johan de Jong | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | Radboud University Nijmegen Leiden University |
Known for | Alterations Stacks Project |
Awards | Cole Prize (2000) EMS Prize (1996) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Columbia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University Harvard University Max Planck Institute for Mathematics |
Doctoral advisor | Frans Oort Joseph H. M. Steenbrink |
Doctoral students | Bhargav Bhatt Kiran Kedlaya |
De Jong was born in Bruges, Belgium on 30 January 1966.[1] He attended the Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet in The Hague, Netherlands.[1] He obtained his master's degree at Leiden University in 1987, under the supervision of Antonius Van de Ven.[1] He earned his Ph.D. cum laude at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1992, under the supervision of Frans Oort and Joseph H. M. Steenbrink.[1][2]
De Jong spent 1 year as a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, 3 months as a visitor at Bielefeld University, and then 3 years as a fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences stationed at Utrecht University.[1][3] He was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University from 1995 to 1996.[3] He was a professor of mathematics at Princeton University from 1996 to 1998 and then worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2005.[3] He moved to Columbia University as a professor of mathematics in 2005.[3]
In 1996, de Jong developed his theory of alterations which was used by Fedor Bogomolov and Tony Pantev (1996) and Dan Abramovich and de Jong (1997) to prove resolution of singularities in characteristic 0 and to prove a weaker result for varieties of all dimensions in characteristic p which is strong enough to act as a substitute for resolution for many purposes.[4][5][6]
In 2005, de Jong started the Stacks Project, "an open source textbook and reference work on algebraic stacks and the algebraic geometry needed to define them."[7] The book that the project has generated currently runs to more than 7500 pages as of July 2022.[8]
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[9] He won the Cole Prize in 2000 for his theory of alterations.[1] In the same year, De Jong became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[10] In 2022 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition.[3]
De Jong lives in New York City with his wife, Cathy O'Neil, and their three sons.[11]
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