Jacob "Jaap" Korevaar (25 January 1923 – 18 March 2025) was a Dutch mathematician. He was part of the faculty of the University of California San Diego and University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as the University of Amsterdam (Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics).
Korevaar became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975. He won the 1987 Lester R. Ford Award, and the 1989 Chauvenet Prize, for an essay on Louis de Branges de Bourcia's proof of the Bieberbach conjecture.Ludwig Bieberbach's Conjecture and Its Proof by Louis de Branges, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 93, 1986, pp. 505–514 online text In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 7 July 2013.
Korevaar was the older brother of the Olympic water polo player Nijs Korevaar.gjkorevaar.nl He died in Bussum on 18 March 2025, at the age of 102.newspaper announcement NRC 22 maart 2025
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Sources Prof. dr. J. Korevaar, 1923 - at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website
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