Joram Lindenstrauss

Joram Lindenstrauss (; October 28, 1936 – April 29, 2012) was an Israeli mathematician working in functional analysis. He was a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics.

Biography

Joram Lindenstrauss was born in Tel Aviv. He worked as a postdoc at Yale University and the University of Washington in Seattle from 1962 - 1965. He was appointed senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in 1965, associate professor on 1967 and full professor in 1969. He became the Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Memorial Professor of Mathematics in 1985. Joram was also the cousin of Micha Lindenstrauss.

Research 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.

Among his results is the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma which concerns low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. Another of his theorems states that in a Banach space with the Radon–Nikodym property, a closed and bounded set has an extreme point; compactness is not needed.

Awards In 1981 Lindenstrauss was awarded the Israel Prize, for mathematics. In 1997, Lindenstrauss was the first mathematician from outside Poland to be awarded the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Published works Classical Banach spaces I (with Lior Tzafriri). Springer-Verlag, 1977. Classical Banach spaces II (with Lior Tzafriri). Springer-Verlag, 1979. Banach spaces with a unique unconditional basis, up to permutation (with Jean Bourgain, Peter George Casazza, and Lior Tzafriri). Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, vol 322. American Mathematical Society, 1985 Geometric nonlinear functional analysis (with Yoav Benyamini). Colloquium publications, 48. American Mathematical Society, 2000. Handbook of the geometry of Banach spaces (Edited, with William B. Johnson). Elsevier, Vol. 1 (2001), Vol. 2 (2003).