Gideon Schechtman

Gideon Schechtman
גדעון שכטמן
Born	(1947-02-14) February 14, 1947 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Spouse	Edna Schechtman
Scientific career
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science
Thesis	Complemented Subspaces of ${\displaystyle L_{p}}$ and Universal Spaces  (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Joram Lindenstrauss

Gideon Schechtman (Hebrew: גדעון שכטמן; born 14 February 1947) is an Israeli mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Schechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976¹ 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 2017.² His research focuses predominantly on functional analysis and the geometry of Banach spaces.³ Schechtman is an editor of the Israel Journal of Mathematics.⁴