Gideon Schechtman

Short description: Israeli mathematician

Gideon Schechtman

גדעון שכטמן

Born|  (1947-02-14) February 14, 1947 (age 79)

Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine

Alma mater| Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Spouse(s)| Edna Schechtman
Scientific career
Institutions| Weizmann Institute of Science
Thesis| Complemented Subspaces of Lp and Universal Spaces (1976)
Doctoral advisor| Joram Lindenstrauss

Gideon Schechtman (Hebrew: גדעון שכטמן; born 14 February 1947) is an Israeli mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

## Academic career

Schechtman 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

1. ↑ Gideon Schechtman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ↑ "Dr. Gideon Schechtman". https://www.msri.org/people/1402.
3. ↑ "Gideon Schechtman, Ph.D.". https://www.simonsfoundation.org/team/gideon-schechtman/.
4. ↑ "Editorial board". http://www.math.huji.ac.il/~ijmath/board.html.

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