Bernard Russell Gelbaum (died March 22, 2005, Laguna Beach, California) was a mathematician and academic administrator having served as a professor at the

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(where he was the first chair of the math department as well as acting dean and associate dean of physical sciences) and as well as emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences,

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. When he arrived at Buffalo 1971, he served as vice president for academic affairs as well as being a math professor.

Biography

While still an undergraduate at

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, Gelbaum served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Signal Corps and was one of the first to liberate the

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. He went on to get his doctorate at

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in 1948. His dissertation, ''Expansions in Banach Spaces'', was supervised by

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