Aleksander Pełczyński

Aleksander "Olek" Pełczyński (born July 2, 1932 in Tarnopol , Poland ; † December 20, 2012 in Breslau ) was a Polish mathematician .

Pełczyński's grave in Warsaw

Pełczyński studied from 1950 to 1956 at the University of Warsaw mathematics and was there in 1958 with his dissertation Własności izomorficzne przestrzeni Banacha związane ze Slabá zbieżnością bezwarunkową Szeregów: (German Isomorphieeigenschaften of Banach spaces with respect to weak unconditional convergence of rows) with Stanisław Mazur doctorate. From 1967 until his retirement in 2002 he worked at the Polish Academy of Sciences . Since 1967 he was co-editor of the mathematical journal Studia Mathematica .

Pełczyński's main field of work was functional analysis , in particular the Banach space theory . In 1961 he received the Stefan Banach Prize and in 1996 he was awarded the Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2005 he has been an honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan . The principle of selection of Bessaga-Pelczynski and the decomposition method of Pelczynski associated with his name.

In 1983 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM ( Structural Theory of Banach Spaces and Its Interplay with Analysis and Probability ). Since 1986 he was a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann and Stanisław Szarek were among his doctoral students . He died in December 2012 and was buried in Warsaw .

literature

• Biographical information from Studia Mathematica 159 (1) (2003) ( also online ; PDF; 22 kB) (English)
• Joe Diestel (Ed.), Obituary, Notices AMS, Volume 64, 2017, No. 1, pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aleksander Pełczyński in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Zmarł Profesor Aleksander Pełczyński (1932-2012) , accessed on May 22, 2016 (Polish)