Gideon Schechtman

Gideon Schechtman
Gideon Schechtman
Born	February 14, 1947; Rehavia, Israel
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Spouse(s)	Edna Schechtman
	Scientific career
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science
Thesis	Complemented Subspaces of 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 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]

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