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'''Joram Lindenstrauss''' ({{lang-he|יורם לינדנשטראוס}}) (October 28, 1936 &ndash; April 29, 2012) was an [[Israel]]i [[mathematician]] working in [[functional analysis]]. He was a [[professor]] of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], [[Israel]].<ref>[http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/staff/faculty_em.html Professors emeriti, Einstein Institute of Mathematics],
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'''Joram Lindenstrauss''' ({{langx|he|יורם לינדנשטראוס}}) (October 28, 1936 &ndash; April 29, 2012) was an Israeli [[mathematician]] working in [[functional analysis]]. He was a [[professor]] of mathematics at the [[Einstein Institute of Mathematics]].<ref>[http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/staff/faculty_em.html Professors emeriti, Einstein Institute of Mathematics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129193717/http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/staff/faculty_em.html |date=2024-01-29 }},
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==Biography==
==Biography==


Joram Lindenstrauss was born in [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name=cv></ref> He was the only child for a pair of lawyers who immigrated to Israel from Berlin. He began to study mathematics at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] in 1954 while serving in the army. He became a full-time student in 1956 and received his master's degree in 1959. In 1962 Lindenstrauss earned his [[Ph.D.]] from the Hebrew University (dissertation: ''Extension of [[compact operator|Compact Operators]]'', advisors: [[Aryeh Dvoretzky]], [[Branko Grünbaum]]).<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=44237 Joram Lindenstrauss] at ''[[Mathematics Genealogy]]''</ref> He worked as a postdoc at Yale University and Washington University in Seattle from 1962 - 1965. He was appointed senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in 1965, associate professor on 1967 and full professor in 1969. He become the Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Memorial Professor of Mathematics in 1985.<ref name=cv></ref> He retired in 2005.
Joram Lindenstrauss was born in [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name=cv /> He was the only child of a pair of lawyers who immigrated to Israel from Berlin. He began to study mathematics at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] in 1954 while serving in the army. He became a full-time student in 1956 and received his master's degree in 1959. In 1962 Lindenstrauss earned his [[Ph.D.]] from the Hebrew University (dissertation: ''Extension of [[compact operator|Compact Operators]]'', advisors: [[Aryeh Dvoretzky]], [[Branko Grünbaum]]).<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=44237 Joram Lindenstrauss] at ''[[Mathematics Genealogy]]''</ref> He worked as a postdoc at Yale University and the University of Washington in Seattle from 1962 - 1965. He was appointed senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in 1965, associate professor on 1967 and full professor in 1969. He became the Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Memorial Professor of Mathematics in 1985.<ref name=cv /> He retired in 2005.


Lindenstrauss was married to theoretical computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss. Two of their children, Ayelet Lindenstrauss and Fields Medallist [[Elon Lindenstrauss]], are also mathematicians (providing a rare example of father, mother, son and daughter all having papers listed in [[Mathematical Reviews]]).<ref name=cv>{{Cite web| title = Joram Lindenstrauss CV| url = ftp://www.emis.de/pub/EMIS/mirror/IMU/Elections_2002/EC/lindenstrausscv.pdf}}</ref> Joram was also the cousin of [[Micha Lindenstrauss]].
Lindenstrauss was married to theoretical computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss. Two of their children, Ayelet Lindenstrauss and Fields Medallist [[Elon Lindenstrauss]], are also mathematicians (providing a rare example of father, mother, son and daughter all having papers listed in [[Mathematical Reviews]]).<ref name=cv>{{Cite web| title = Joram Lindenstrauss CV| url = https://www.emis.de/mirror/IMU/Elections_2002/EC/lindenstrausscv.pdf }}</ref> Joram was also the cousin of [[Micha Lindenstrauss]].


==Research==
==Research==
Lindenstrauss worked in various areas of [[functional analysis]] and [[geometry]],<ref name=bbio>[http://books.google.com/books?id=v9in9nUW5bsC&pg=PP4&vq=1936'&dq=%22Classical+Banach+Spaces%22&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1 A biographical sketch from the book "Classical Banach Spaces"]</ref> particularly Banach space theory, finite- and infinite-dimensional convexity, geometric nonlinear functional analysis and geometric measure theory.<ref name=cv></ref> He has authored more than 100 papers as well as several of the most influential books in Banach space theory.<ref name=mathrev>{{cite web|title=MathSciNet author profile| url=http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search/author.html?mrauthid=114270}}</ref>
Lindenstrauss worked in various areas of [[functional analysis]] and [[geometry]],<ref name=bbio>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v9in9nUW5bsC&pg=PP4&vq=1936'&dq=%22Classical+Banach+Spaces%22&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1 A biographical sketch from the book "Classical Banach Spaces"]</ref> particularly Banach space theory, finite- and infinite-dimensional convexity, geometric nonlinear functional analysis and geometric measure theory.<ref name=cv /> He authored more than 100 papers as well as several books in Banach space theory.<ref name=mathrev>{{cite web|title=MathSciNet author profile|url=https://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search/author.html?mrauthid=114270|url-access=subscription}}</ref>


Among his most well-known results is the [[Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma]] which concerns low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. Another of his theorems states that in a [[Banach space]] with the [[Radon–Nikodym property]], a [[closed set|closed]] and [[bounded set]] has an [[extreme point]]; [[compact space|compactness]] is not needed.<ref>{{harvtxt|Artstein|1980|p=173}}: {{cite journal|last=Artstein|first=Zvi|title=Discrete&nbsp;and&nbsp;continuous bang-bang and facial&nbsp;spaces, or: Look for the extreme points|journal=SIAM Review|volume=22|year=1980|number=2|pages=172–185|doi=10.1137/1022026|mr=564562|jstor=2029960|ref=harv}}</ref>
Among his results is the [[Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma]] which concerns low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. Another of his theorems states that in a [[Banach space]] with the [[Radon–Nikodym property]], a [[closed set|closed]] and [[bounded set]] has an [[extreme point]]; [[compact space|compactness]] is not needed.<ref>{{harvtxt|Artstein|1980|p=173}}: {{cite journal|last=Artstein|first=Zvi|title=Discrete&nbsp;and&nbsp;continuous bang-bang and facial&nbsp;spaces, or: Look for the extreme points|journal=SIAM Review|volume=22|year=1980|number=2|pages=172–185|doi=10.1137/1022026|mr=564562|jstor=2029960}}</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==
In 1981 Lindenstrauss was awarded the [[Israel Prize]], for mathematics.<ref name=prize>{{Cite web| title = Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1981 (in Hebrew)| url = http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashlag/Tashmab_Tashlag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashma}}</ref> In 1997, Lindenstrauss was the first mathematician from outside Poland to be awarded the Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences.<ref> {{cite web | title = Banach Medal winners | url = http://www.impan.pl/EN/Awards/banach.html}}</ref>
In 1981 Lindenstrauss was awarded the [[Israel Prize]], for mathematics.<ref name=prize>{{Cite web| title = Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1981 (in Hebrew)| url = http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashlag/Tashmab_Tashlag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashma}}</ref> In 1997, Lindenstrauss was the first mathematician from outside Poland to be awarded the [[Stefan Banach Medal]] of the Polish Academy of Sciences.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.impan.pl/en/events/awards/stefan-banach-medal| title=Stefan Banach Medal |publisher=Polish Academy of Sciences| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105125729/https://www.impan.pl/en/events/awards/stefan-banach-medal|archive-date=2020-11-05}}</ref>


== Published works ==
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* ''Classical Banach spaces II'' (with Lior Tzafriri). Springer-Verlag, 1979.
* ''Classical Banach spaces II'' (with Lior Tzafriri). Springer-Verlag, 1979.
* ''Banach spaces with a unique unconditional basis, up to permutation'' (with [[Jean Bourgain]], Peter George Casazza, and Lior Tzafriri). ''Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society'', vol 322. [[American Mathematical Society]], 1985
* ''Banach spaces with a unique unconditional basis, up to permutation'' (with [[Jean Bourgain]], Peter George Casazza, and Lior Tzafriri). ''Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society'', vol 322. [[American Mathematical Society]], 1985
*''Geometric nonlinear functional analysis'' (with Yoav Benyamini). Colloquium publications, 48. American Mathematical Society, 2000.<ref>[http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/info/display.html Virtual display of books written by members of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics]</ref>
*''Geometric nonlinear functional analysis'' (with Yoav Benyamini). Colloquium publications, 48. American Mathematical Society, 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/info/display.html |title=Virtual display of books written by members of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics |access-date=2008-12-19 |archive-date=2007-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109232825/http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/info/display.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''Handbook of the geometry of Banach spaces'' (Edited, with William B. Johnson). Elsevier, Vol. 1 (2001), Vol. 2 (2003).
* ''Handbook of the geometry of Banach spaces'' (Edited, with William B. Johnson). Elsevier, Vol. 1 (2001), Vol. 2 (2003).


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Latest revision as of 14:35, 1 December 2024

Joram Lindenstrauss
יורם לינדנשטראוס
Joram Lindenstrauss, 1975
Born(1936-10-28)October 28, 1936
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
DiedApril 29, 2012(2012-04-29) (aged 75)
Resting placeHar HaMenuchot
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
AwardsIsrael Prize (1981)
Scientific career
InstitutionsEinstein Institute of Mathematics
Doctoral advisorsAryeh Dvoretzky
Branko Grünbaum
Doctoral studentsAssaf Naor, Gideon Schechtman

Joram Lindenstrauss (Hebrew: יורם לינדנשטראוס) (October 28, 1936 – April 29, 2012) was an Israeli mathematician working in functional analysis. He was a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics.[1]

Biography

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Joram Lindenstrauss was born in Tel Aviv.[2] He was the only child of a pair of lawyers who immigrated to Israel from Berlin. He began to study mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1954 while serving in the army. He became a full-time student in 1956 and received his master's degree in 1959. In 1962 Lindenstrauss earned his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University (dissertation: Extension of Compact Operators, advisors: Aryeh Dvoretzky, Branko Grünbaum).[3] He worked as a postdoc at Yale University and the University of Washington in Seattle from 1962 - 1965. He was appointed senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in 1965, associate professor on 1967 and full professor in 1969. He became the Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Memorial Professor of Mathematics in 1985.[2] He retired in 2005.

Lindenstrauss was married to theoretical computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss. Two of their children, Ayelet Lindenstrauss and Fields Medallist Elon Lindenstrauss, are also mathematicians (providing a rare example of father, mother, son and daughter all having papers listed in Mathematical Reviews).[2] Joram was also the cousin of Micha Lindenstrauss.

Research

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Lindenstrauss worked in various areas of functional analysis and geometry,[4] particularly Banach space theory, finite- and infinite-dimensional convexity, geometric nonlinear functional analysis and geometric measure theory.[2] He authored more than 100 papers as well as several books in Banach space theory.[5]

Among his results is the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma which concerns low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. Another of his theorems states that in a Banach space with the Radon–Nikodym property, a closed and bounded set has an extreme point; compactness is not needed.[6]

Awards

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In 1981 Lindenstrauss was awarded the Israel Prize, for mathematics.[7] In 1997, Lindenstrauss was the first mathematician from outside Poland to be awarded the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[8]

Published works

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  • Classical Banach spaces I (with Lior Tzafriri). Springer-Verlag, 1977.
  • Classical Banach spaces II (with Lior Tzafriri). Springer-Verlag, 1979.
  • Banach spaces with a unique unconditional basis, up to permutation (with Jean Bourgain, Peter George Casazza, and Lior Tzafriri). Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, vol 322. American Mathematical Society, 1985
  • Geometric nonlinear functional analysis (with Yoav Benyamini). Colloquium publications, 48. American Mathematical Society, 2000.[9]
  • Handbook of the geometry of Banach spaces (Edited, with William B. Johnson). Elsevier, Vol. 1 (2001), Vol. 2 (2003).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Professors emeriti, Einstein Institute of Mathematics Archived 2024-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, http://www.math.huji.ac.il/#news
  2. ^ a b c d "Joram Lindenstrauss CV" (PDF).
  3. ^ Joram Lindenstrauss at Mathematics Genealogy
  4. ^ A biographical sketch from the book "Classical Banach Spaces"
  5. ^ "MathSciNet author profile".
  6. ^ Artstein (1980, p. 173): Artstein, Zvi (1980). "Discrete and continuous bang-bang and facial spaces, or: Look for the extreme points". SIAM Review. 22 (2): 172–185. doi:10.1137/1022026. JSTOR 2029960. MR 0564562.
  7. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1981 (in Hebrew)".
  8. ^ "Stefan Banach Medal". Polish Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2020-11-05.
  9. ^ "Virtual display of books written by members of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics". Archived from the original on 2007-11-09. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
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