Education
De Jong attended high school in The Hague, obtained his master"s degree at Leiden University and earned his doctorate at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1992, under supervision of Frans Oort and Joseph H. M. Steenbrink.
mathematician university professor
De Jong attended high school in The Hague, obtained his master"s degree at Leiden University and earned his doctorate at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1992, under supervision of Frans Oort and Joseph H. M. Steenbrink.
He currently is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. His research interest includes algebraic geometry. Professor de Jong has also spent the past few years working on the Stacks Project, "an open source textbook and reference work on algebraic stacks and the algebraic geometry needed to define them." The book the project has generated currently runs to more than 4,000 pages.