| Jacob Korevaar | |
| Birth Date: | 25 January 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Lange Ruige Weide |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Relatives: | Nijs Korevaar (brother) |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | University of Amsterdam University of California San Diego University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Alma Mater: | University of Leiden |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Hendrik Kloosterman |
| Awards: | Chauvenet Prize (1989) Lester R. Ford Award (1987) |
Jacob "Jaap" Korevaar (born 25 January 1923) is 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.[1] 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.[2] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
Korevaar is the older brother of the Olympic water polo player Nijs Korevaar.https://web.archive.org/web/20140107033546/http://www.gjkorevaar.nl/Korevaar_Nijs_Cornelia_Wepster.htm He turned 100 on 25 January 2023.[4]