Joram Lindenstrauss ( he, יורם לינדנשטראוס) (October 28, 1936 – April 29, 2012) was an Israeli
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
working in
functional analysis
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. He was a
professor
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of mathematics at the
Einstein Institute of Mathematics
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.
Biography
Joram Lindenstrauss was born in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
.
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
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
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.
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from the Hebrew University (dissertation: ''Extension of
Compact Operators'', advisors:
Aryeh Dvoretzky
Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky ( he, אריה דבורצקי, russian: Арье Дворецкий; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his w ...
,
Branko Grünbaum). 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.
He retired in 2005.
Lindenstrauss was married to theoretical computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss. Two of their children, Ayelet Lindenstrauss and Fields Medallist
Elon Lindenstrauss
Elon Lindenstrauss ( he, אילון לינדנשטראוס, born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.
Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed to Profess ...
, are also mathematicians (providing a rare example of father, mother, son and daughter all having papers listed in
Mathematical Reviews
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).
Joram was also the cousin of
Micha Lindenstrauss
Micha Lindenstrauss ( he, מיכה לינדנשטראוס) (28 June 1937 – 2 May 2019) was an Israeli judge and the State Comptroller between 2005 and 2012.
Biography
Micha Lindenstrauss was born in Berlin, Germany. His family immigrated to Ma ...
.
Research
Lindenstrauss worked in various areas of
functional analysis
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and
geometry
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,
[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. He authored more than 100 papers as well as several books in Banach space theory.
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
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with the Radon–Nikodym property, a closed
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Mathematics
* Closure (mathematics), a set, along with operations, for which applying those operations on members always results in a member of the set
* Closed set, a set which contains all its limit points
* Closed interval, ...
and bounded set
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In mathematical analysis and related areas of mat ...
has an extreme point
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; compactness
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is not needed.
Awards
In 1981 Lindenstrauss was awarded the Israel Prize
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, for mathematics. In 1997, Lindenstrauss was the first mathematician from outside Poland to be awarded the Stefan Banach Medal
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of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Published works
* ''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
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, 1985
*''Geometric nonlinear functional analysis'' (with Yoav Benyamini). Colloquium publications, 48. American Mathematical Society, 2000.Virtual display of books written by members of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics
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* ''Handbook of the geometry of Banach spaces'' (Edited, with William B. Johnson). Elsevier, Vol. 1 (2001), Vol. 2 (2003).
See also
*List of Israel Prize recipients
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List
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