Aise Johan de Jong

Career 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.

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." The book that the project has generated currently runs to more than 7500 pages as of July 2022.

Awards and honors In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He won the Cole Prize in 2000 for his theory of alterations. In the same year, De Jong became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2022 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition.

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

Selected works

The Stacks Project