12 Facts About Joram Lindenstrauss

Joram Lindenstrauss was an Israeli mathematician working in functional analysis.

Joram Lindenstrauss was a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics.

Joram Lindenstrauss was the only child of a pair of lawyers who immigrated to Israel from Berlin.

Joram Lindenstrauss began to study mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1954 while serving in the army.

Joram Lindenstrauss became a full-time student in 1956 and received his master's degree in 1959.

Joram Lindenstrauss worked as a postdoc at Yale University and the University of Washington in Seattle from 1962 - 1965.

Joram Lindenstrauss was appointed senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in 1965, associate professor on 1967 and full professor in 1969.

Joram Lindenstrauss became the Leon H and Ada G Miller Memorial Professor of Mathematics in 1985.

Joram Lindenstrauss worked in various areas of functional analysis and geometry, particularly Banach space theory, finite- and infinite-dimensional convexity, geometric nonlinear functional analysis and geometric measure theory.

Joram Lindenstrauss authored more than 100 papers as well as several books in Banach space theory.

In 1981 Joram Lindenstrauss was awarded the Israel Prize, for mathematics.

In 1997, Joram Lindenstrauss was the first mathematician from outside Poland to be awarded the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences.