{{Short description|Israeli mathematician}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Gideon Schechtman | native_name = גדעון שכטמן | native_name_lang = he | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|02|14}} | birth_place = Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = Weizmann Institute of Science | alma_mater = Hebrew University of Jerusalem | thesis_title = Complemented Subspaces of <math>L_p</math> and Universal Spaces | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1976 | doctoral_advisor = Joram Lindenstrauss | awards = | spouse = Edna Schechtman }}
'''Gideon Schechtman''' ({{Langx|he|גדעון שכטמן}}; born 14 February 1947) is an Israeli mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
==Academic career== Schechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=129490}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Gideon Schechtman|website=Mathematical Sciences Research Institute|access-date=12 February 2019|url=https://www.msri.org/people/1402}}</ref> His research focuses predominantly on functional analysis and the geometry of Banach spaces.<ref>{{cite web|website=Simons Foundation|title=Gideon Schechtman, Ph.D.|access-date=21 February 2019|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/team/gideon-schechtman/}}</ref> Schechtman is an editor of the Israel Journal of Mathematics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.huji.ac.il/~ijmath/board.html|title=Editorial board|website=Israel Journal of Mathematics, homepage at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem|access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref>
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