Haïm Brezis (1 June 1944 – 7 July 2024) was a French mathematician, who mainly worked in functional analysis and partial differential equations.
Brezis was the son of a Romanian immigrant father, who had come to France in the 1930s, and a Jewish mother who had fled from the Netherlands.
His wife, Michal Govrin, a native Israeli, works as a novelist, poet, and theater director.
[1] Brezis received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1972 under the supervision of Gustave Choquet.
He was a member of the Academia Europaea (1988) and a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (2003).