Tadeusz Figiel (born 2 July 1948 in Gdańsk) is a Polish mathematician specializing in

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Biography

In 1970 Figiel graduated in mathematics at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields o ...

. He received his doctorate in 1972 under the supervision of

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and then habilitated in 1975 with habilitation thesis ''O modułach wypukłości i gładkości'' (On modules of convexity and smoothness) at the (Instytut Matematyczny PAN). There Figiel was appointed in 1983 an associate professor and in 1990 a full professor. He is the head of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the journal '' Studia Mathematica''.''Złota księga nauk ekonomicznych, prawnych i ścisłych 2005'' (The Golden Book of Economics, Law and Science 2005), wyd. Mastermedia sp. z o.o. i wyd. Helion, Gliwice 2005, p. 67 Figiel received in 1976 the Stefan Banach Award, in 1988 the of First Degree (together with Zbigniew Ciesielski), in 1989 the , and in 2004 the Stefan Banach Medal. In 1983 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.Figiel, T. "Local theory of Banach spaces and some operator ideals." In Proc. ICM, Warsaw, pp. 961–976. 1983.

Selected publications

* with William B. Johnson: "The approximation property does not imply the bounded approximation property." Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 41 (1973), 197–200. * with Wayne J. Davis, William B. Johnson, and Alexander Pelczynski
"Factoring weakly compact operators."
Journal of Functional Analysis 17, no. 3 (1974): 311–327. * with W. B. Johnson
p''."">"A uniformly convex Banach space which contains no ''l_p''."
Compositio Mathematica 29, no. 2 (1974): 179–190. * with W. B. Johnson and Lior Tzafriri
"On Banach lattices and spaces having local unconditional structure, with applications to Lorentz function spaces."
Journal of Approximation Theory 13, no. 4 (1975): 395–412.
"On the moduli of convexity and smoothness."
Studia Mathematica 56, no. 2 (1976): 121–155. * with

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and Vitali D. Milman: "The dimension of almost spherical sections of convex bodies." Acta Mathematica 139, no. 1 (1977): 53–94. * with Z. Ciesielski
∞'' manifolds, Part II."">"Spline bases in classical function spaces on compact ''C^∞'' manifolds, Part II."
Studia Mathematica 76, no. 2 (1983): 95–136.
"Singular integral operators: a martingale approach."
Geometry of Banach spaces (Strobl, 1989) 158 (1990): 95–110. * with Ken Dykema, Gary Weiss, and Mariusz Wodzicki
"Commutator structure of operator ideals."
Advances in Mathematics 185, no. 1 (2004): 1– 79.

References

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