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Joram Lindenstrauss

Joram Lindenstrauss was an Israeli mathematician who worked in functional analysis and received the Israel Prize in 1981.

1936 to 2012The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemmaBanach space theoryLindenstrauss spaces

Born: 28 October 1936, Tel Aviv
Died: 29 April 2012
Occupation: mathematician, university teacher
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joram Lindenstrauss was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv

Joram Lindenstrauss was born in Tel Aviv in 1936. He was the only child of two lawyers who had immigrated from Berlin.

He began studying mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1954 while serving in the army. He became a full-time student in 1956, earned a master's degree in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1962, advised by Aryeh Dvoretzky and Branko Grünbaum.

After postdoctoral work at Yale University and the University of Washington, he joined the Hebrew University in 1965 and became a full professor in 1969. His research covered Banach space theory, convexity and geometric nonlinear functional analysis, and his results include the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. He wrote more than 100 papers and several books, and edited journals including the Israel Journal of Mathematics.

He retired in 2005 and died in 2012. He was married to computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss, and their children Ayelet and Elon Lindenstrauss are also mathematicians.

Joram Lindenstrauss's life in 9 milestones

1936
Born in Tel Aviv.
1954
Began studying mathematics at the Hebrew University.
1962
Received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University.
1965
Appointed senior lecturer at the Hebrew University.
1969
Became a full professor.
1981
Received the Israel Prize for mathematics.
1997
Became the first mathematician from outside Poland to receive the Stefan Banach Medal.
2005
Retired.
2012
Died.