Gheorghe Moroșanu
Haim Brezis was born on June 1, 1944, in Riom–ès–Montagnes, a small town in Auvergne (France), and passed away on July 7, 2024, in Jerusalem. He was the son of a Romanian father, who had come to France in 1930, and a Jewish mother who had fled the Netherlands. Note that Haim is a Hebrew name that means life or living, being associated with the idea of vitality and energy, and is often given as a wish for a long and healthy life. His last name, Brezis, is an abbreviation of a
Hebrew sentence. He also signed some of his publications with the names Ha¨ım Brezis or Ha¨ım Br´ezis, but we will only use Haim Brezis here (as in his functional analysis book published by Springer in 2010, see below).
DOI 10.56082/annalsarscimath.2025.1.5
PUBLISHED in Annals Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Mathematics on Its Application, Volume 17 no 1, 2025
