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Aise Johan de Jong
Born (1966-01-30) 30 January 1966 (age 58)
Bruges, Belgium[1]
Nationality Dutch
Alma materRadboud University Nijmegen
Leiden University
AwardsCole Prize (2000)
EMS Prize (1996)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsColumbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorFrans Oort
Joseph H. M. Steenbrink
Doctoral studentsKiran Kedlaya

Aise Johan de Jong (born 30 January 1966)[1] is a Dutch mathematician born in Belgium. He currently is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. His research interest includes algebraic geometry.

De Jong attended high school in The Hague, obtained his master's degree at Leiden University and earned his doctorate at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1992, under supervision of Frans Oort and Joseph H. M. Steenbrink.

He won the Cole Prize in 2000 for his theory of alterations.[1] Alterations provide a weaker form of resolution of singularities, valid also in positive characteristic. In the same year, De Jong became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]

Professor de Jong has also spent the past few years working on the Stacks Project, "an open source textbook and reference work on algebraic stacks and the algebraic geometry needed to define them."[3] The book the project has generated currently runs to more than 6,000 pages as of March 2018.[4]

De Jong lives in New York City with his wife, Cathy O'Neil, and their three sons.[5]

Selected works

  • De Jong, A. J. (1996). "Smoothness, semi-stability and alterations". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. 83: 51–93. doi:10.1007/bf02698644.
  • The Stacks Project

References

  1. ^ a b c 2000 Cole Prize
  2. ^ "Aise de Jong". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  3. ^ "The Stacks Project » About". columbia.edu. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  4. ^ Johan de Jong; et al. The Stacks Project (PDF). Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  5. ^ "mathbabe.org about page". Retrieved 25 July 2013.


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