Abbas Bahri

Abbas Bahri (1 January 1955 – 10 January 2016) was a Tunisian mathematician. He was the winner of the Fermat Prize and the Langevin Prize in mathematics. Afterwards, he was a visiting scientist at the University of Chicago.

In October 1981, Bahri became a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Tunis. He taught as a lecturer at the École Polytechnique from 1984 to 1993. In 1988, he became a tenured professor at Rutgers University. At Rutgers, he was director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis from 1988 to 2002.

Personal life He married Diana Nunziante on 20 June 1991. His wife is from Italy and they had four children.

Awards In 1989, Bahri won the Fermat Prize for Mathematics, jointly with Kenneth Alan Ribet, for his introduction of new methods in the calculus of variations.

Works Pseudo-orbits of contact forms (1988) Critical Points at Infinity in Some Variational Problems (1989) Classical and Quantic Periodic Motions of Multiply Polarized Spin-Particles (1998) Flow lines and algebraic invariants in contact form geometry (2003) Recent progress in conformal geometry with Yongzhong Xu (2007)

Selected publications