Tadeusz Figiel

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[]

• with William B. Johnson: "The approximation property does not imply the bounded approximation property." Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 41 (1973), 197–200. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1973-0341032-5
• with Wayne J. Davis, William B. Johnson, and Alexander Pelczynski: "Factoring weakly compact operators." Journal of Functional Analysis 17, no. 3 (1974): 311–327.
• with W. B. Johnson. "A uniformly convex Banach space which contains no l_p." Compositio Mathematica 29, no. 2 (1974): 179–190.
• with W. B. Johnson and Lior Tzafriri: "On Banach lattices and spaces having local unconditional structure, with applications to Lorentz function spaces." Journal of Approximation Theory 13, no. 4 (1975): 395–412.
• "On the moduli of convexity and smoothness." Studia Mathematica 56, no. 2 (1976): 121–155.
• with Joram Lindenstrauss and Vitali D. Milman: "The dimension of almost spherical sections of convex bodies." Acta Mathematica 139, no. 1 (1977): 53–94. doi:10.1007/BF02392234
• with Z. Ciesielski: "Spline bases in classical function spaces on compact C^∞ manifolds, Part II." Studia Mathematica 76, no. 2 (1983): 95–136.
• "Singular integral operators: a martingale approach." Geometry of Banach spaces (Strobl, 1989) 158 (1990): 95–110.
• with Ken Dykema, Gary Weiss, and Mariusz Wodzicki: "Commutator structure of operator ideals." Advances in Mathematics 185, no. 1 (2004): 1– 79.

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