Gideon Schechtman

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
גדעון שכטמן
Born	February 14, 1947 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Spouse(s)	Edna Schechtman
Scientific career
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science
Thesis	Complemented Subspaces of ${\displaystyle L_{p}}$ and Universal Spaces (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Joram Lindenstrauss

Academic career

Schechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1977 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.[1]His research focuses predominantly on functional analysis and the geometry of Banach spaces.[2]

See also

• Gideon Schechtman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

References

1. "Dr. Gideon Schechtman". Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
2. "Gideon Schechtman, Ph.D." Simons Foundation. Retrieved 21 February 2019.