Martin Schechter (mathematician)

Martin Schechter (1930, Philadelphia – June 7, 2021) was an American mathematician whose work concerned mathematical analysis (specially partial differential equations and functional analysis and their applications to mathematical physics). He was a professor at the University of California, Irvine.^[1][2]

Schechter did his undergraduate studies at the City University of New York.^[1]

He obtained his Ph.D. in 1957 from New York University (NYU) with Louis Nirenberg and Lipman Bers as thesis advisors; his dissertation was entitled On estimating partial differential operator in the L₂-norm.^[3] He taught at NYU from 1957 to 1966, and at Yeshiva University from 1966 to 1983, before moving to UC Irvine.^[1]

He is the author of several books, including the textbook Principles of Functional Analysis (Academic Press, 1971; 2nd ed., AMS, 2002).^[4]

Schechter was a member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists.

Schechter is buried in the Har Menuchot cemetery in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.

Selected publications

• Principles of Functional Analysis, Academic Press 1971, 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society 2002
• Minimax systems and critical point theory, Springer 2009
• with Wenming Zou: Critical point theory and its applications, Springer 2006
• Linking methods in critical point theory, Birkhäuser 1999
• Introduction to nonlinear analysis, Cambridge University Press 2004
• Operator methods in quantum mechanics, North Holland 1981, Dover 2002
• Spectra of partial differential operators, North Holland, 1971, 2nd edition 1986
• Modern methods in partial differential equations, McGraw Hill 1977
• with Lipman Bers and Fritz John; with supplements by Lars Gårding, Arthur Milgram: Partial Differential Equations, Wiley 1964, 1966, American Mathematical Society 1991 (chapter by Schechter, Bers Elliptic Equations and Their Solutions, pp. 131–149)

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