Gideon Schechtman
{{Short description|Israeli mathematician}}
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| name = Gideon Schechtman
| native_name = גדעון שכטמן
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|02|14}}
| birth_place = Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
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| workplaces = Weizmann Institute of Science
| alma_mater = Hebrew University of Jerusalem
| thesis_title = Complemented Subspaces of and Universal Spaces
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| thesis_year = 1976
| doctoral_advisor = Joram Lindenstrauss
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| spouse = Edna Schechtman
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Gideon Schechtman ({{Langx|he|גדעון שכטמן}}; born 14 February 1947) is an Israeli mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Academic career
Schechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976{{MathGenealogy|id=129490}} 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.{{cite web|title=Dr. Gideon Schechtman|website=Mathematical Sciences Research Institute|access-date=12 February 2019|url=https://www.msri.org/people/1402}} His research focuses predominantly on functional analysis and the geometry of Banach spaces.{{cite web|website=Simons Foundation|title=Gideon Schechtman, Ph.D.|access-date=21 February 2019|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/team/gideon-schechtman/}} Schechtman is an editor of the Israel Journal of Mathematics.{{cite web|url=http://www.math.huji.ac.il/~ijmath/board.html|title=Editorial board|website=Israel Journal of Mathematics, homepage at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem|access-date=16 October 2022}}
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