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	(1947-02-14) February 14, 1947 (age 78) Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Spouse	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 1976^[1] 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.^[2] His research focuses predominantly on functional analysis and the geometry of Banach spaces.^[3] Schechtman is an editor of the Israel Journal of Mathematics.^[4]