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William B. Johnson

b. 1944

American mathematician (born 1944)

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Born 1944. William B. Johnson is an American mathematician.

William Buhmann Johnson (born December 5, 1944) is an American mathematician, one of the namesakes of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma. He is Distinguished Professor and A.G. & M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics at Texas A&M University. His research specialties include the theory of Banach spaces, nonlinear functional analysis, and probability theory. He was born in Palo Alto, California and raised from an early age in Dallas, Texas.

Johnson graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1966, and earned a doctorate from Iowa State University in 1969 under the supervision of James A. Dyer. After faculty positions at the University of Houston, and Ohio State University, he joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1984.

In 2007, Johnson was awarded the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2018 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. His doctoral students include Edward Odell.

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Education
Southern Methodist University, Iowa State University
Employers
Texas A&M University, University of Houston
Awards
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Also known as
William Buhmann Johnson, William Johnson

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American mathematician (born 1944)

When was William B. Johnson born?

William B. Johnson was born on 5 December 1944 in Palo Alto.

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William B. Johnson is a mathematician.

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William B. Johnson is American.

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· Wikipedia: William B. Johnson

· Wikidata: Q2577912

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