1. In solving these problems, Enflo developed new techniques which were then used by other researchers in functional analysis and operator theory for years.
11 Facts About Per Enflo
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Per Enflo has earlier held positions at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Ecole Polytechnique, and The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
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At Stockholm University, Hans Radstrom suggested that Per Enflo consider Hilbert's fifth problem in the spirit of functional analysis.
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Per Enflo considered the problem of uniform embeddability among Banach spaces, and the distortion was an auxiliary device in his proof.
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In 1972 Enflo proved that "every super-reflexive Banach space admits an equivalent uniformly convex norm".
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In 1972, Per Enflo constructed a separable Banach space that lacks the approximation property and a Schauder basis.
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Per Enflo proposed a solution to the invariant subspace problem in 1975, publishing an outline in 1976.
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Per Enflo has written about the population dynamics of zebra mussels in Lake Erie.
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At age 12, Enflo appeared as a soloist with the Royal Opera Orchestra of Sweden.
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Per Enflo debuted in the Stockholm Concert Hall in 1963.
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Per Enflo's teachers included Bruno Seidlhofer, Geza Anda, and Gottfried Boon.