Martin Schechter (mathematician)

American mathematician (1930–2021))

Martin Schechter (1930, Philadelphia – June 7, 2021) was an American mathematician whose work concerned mathematical analysis (specially partial differential equations and functional analysis and their applications to mathematical physics). He was a professor at the University of California, Irvine.[1][2]

Schechter did his undergraduate studies at the City University of New York.[1]

He obtained his Ph.D. in 1957 from New York University (NYU) with Louis Nirenberg and Lipman Bers as thesis advisors; his dissertation was entitled On estimating partial differential operator in the L2-norm.[3] He taught at NYU from 1957 to 1966, and at Yeshiva University from 1966 to 1983, before moving to UC Irvine.[1]

He is the author of several books, including the textbook Principles of Functional Analysis (Academic Press, 1971; 2nd ed., AMS, 2002).[4]

Schechter was a member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists.

Schechter is buried in the Har Menuchot cemetery in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.

## Selected publications

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* Principles of Functional Analysis, Academic Press 1971, 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society 2002
* Minimax systems and critical point theory, Springer 2009
* with Wenming Zou: Critical point theory and its applications, Springer 2006
* Linking methods in critical point theory, Birkhäuser 1999
* Introduction to nonlinear analysis, Cambridge University Press 2004
* Operator methods in quantum mechanics, North Holland 1981, Dover 2002
* Spectra of partial differential operators, North Holland, 1971, 2nd edition 1986
* Modern methods in partial differential equations, McGraw Hill 1977
* with Lipman Bers and Fritz John; with supplements by Lars Gårding, Arthur Milgram: Partial Differential Equations, Wiley 1964, 1966, American Mathematical Society 1991 (chapter by Schechter, Bers Elliptic Equations and Their Solutions, pp. 131–149)

## References

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1. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae: Martin Schechter, retrieved 2015-10-31.
2. ^ "REMEMBERING PROFESSOR MARTIN SCHECHTER". University of California at Irvine. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
3. ^ Martin Schechter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ^ Review of Principles of Functional Analysis, 2nd ed., by Robert G. Bartle (2002), MR1861991.

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