Tadeusz Figiel

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Tadeusz Figiel

Tadeusz Figiel (born 2 July 1948 in Gdańsk) is a Polish mathematician specializing in functional analysis.[1]

Biography[]

In 1970 Figiel graduated in mathematics at the University of Warsaw. He received his doctorate in 1972 under the supervision of Aleksander Pełczyński[2] and then habilitated in 1975 with habilitation thesis O modułach wypukłości i gładkości (On modules of convexity and smoothness) at the  [pl] (Instytut Matematyczny PAN). There Figiel was appointed in 1983 an associate professor and in 1990 a full professor. He is the head of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the journal Studia Mathematica.[3]

Figiel received in 1976 the Stefan Banach Award, in 1988 the  [pl] of First Degree (together with Zbigniew Ciesielski), in 1989 the  [pl], and in 2004 the Stefan Banach Medal. In 1983 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.[4]

Selected publications[]

References[]

  1. ^ "prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Figiel".
  2. ^ Aleksander Pełczyński at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Złota księga nauk ekonomicznych, prawnych i ścisłych 2005 (The Golden Book of Economics, Law and Science 2005), wyd. Mastermedia sp. z o.o. i wyd. Helion, Gliwice 2005, p. 67
  4. ^ Figiel, T. "Local theory of Banach spaces and some operator ideals." In Proc. ICM, Warsaw, pp. 961–976. 1983.
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