Israel Gohberg

Israel Gohberg (August 23 1928) is a Russian-born mathematician, most known for his work in operator theory and functional analysis, in particular linear operators and integral equations. [MacTutor|id=Gohberg|title=Israel Gohberg] He has authored near five hundred articles in his field.

He studied at College of Education in Bishkek and the University of Chişinău, did his doctorate at Leningrad University on a thesis advised by Mark Krein (1954), andwent to University of Moscow for a habilitation degree.He joined the faculty at Teacher's college in Soroki, at theteachers college in Bălţi before returning to Chişinău where hewas elected into the Academy of Sciences and also being appointed head of
functional analysis at University of Chişinău (1964-73).After moving to Israel, Israel joined Tel Aviv University (1974) andwas at the Weizman Institute at Rehovot. Since then he alsohad positions at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (1983),as well as at University of Calgary and University of Maryland, College Park.He founded the Integral equations and operator theory journal (1983).

Awards

*Humboldt Prize 1992
*honorary degree from the Darmstadt University of Technology 1997

References

External links

* [http://www.math.uconn.edu/~olshevsky/pictures/Gohberg.html pictures of Gohberg]