Gideon Schechtman (Hebrew: גדעון שכטמן; born 14 February 1947) is an Israeli mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Gideon Schechtman | |
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גדעון שכטמן | |
| Born | February 14, 1947 |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Spouse | Edna Schechtman |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Thesis | Complemented Subspaces of and Universal Spaces (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joram Lindenstrauss |
Academic career
editSchechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976[1] and was a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University.
Since 1980 he has been affiliated with the Weizmann Institute, where he became emeritus professor in 2017.[2] His research focuses predominantly on functional analysis and the geometry of Banach spaces.[3] Schechtman is an editor of the Israel Journal of Mathematics.[4]
References
edit- ^ Gideon Schechtman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Dr. Gideon Schechtman". Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "Gideon Schechtman, Ph.D." Simons Foundation. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ^ "Editorial board". Israel Journal of Mathematics, homepage at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 16 October 2022.