Tadeusz Figiel

Tadeusz Figiel

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

Biography

In 1970 Figiel graduated in mathematics at the University of Warsaw. He received his doctorate in 1972 under the supervision of Aleksander Pełczyński and then habilitated in 1975 with habilitation thesis O modułach wypukłości i gładkości (On modules of convexity and smoothness) at the Instytut Matematyczny Polskiej Academia Nauk (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.

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

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.