David Pinhusovich Milman (russian: Дави́д Пи́нхусович Ми́льман; 15 January 1912,
Chechelnyk
Chechelnyk (earlier also Chichelnik; alternate spellings Chetschelnik, Chitchilnik, Cicelnic, Czeczelnik, Tschetschelnik) ( uk, Чечельнúк, russian: Чечельни́к) is an urban-type settlement on the Savranka River (a tributary of th ...
near
Vinnytsia – 12 July 1982,
Tel Aviv) was a
Soviet and later
Israeli
mathematician specializing in
functional analysis.
He was one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. In the 70s he emigrated to
Israel and was on the faculty of
Tel Aviv University.
Milman is known for his development of
functional analysis methods, particularly in
operator theory, in close connection with concrete problems coming from
mathematical physics, in particular
differential equations and
normal mode
A normal mode of a dynamical system is a pattern of motion in which all parts of the system move sinusoidally with the same frequency and with a fixed phase relation. The free motion described by the normal modes takes place at fixed frequencies. ...
s. The
Krein–Milman theorem and the
Milman–Pettis theorem are named after him.
Milman received his Ph.D. from
Odessa State University
Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University ( uk, Одеський національний університет Iмені І. І. Мечникова, translit=Odeskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni I. I. Mechnykova), located in Odesa, Ukraine, i ...
in 1939 under direction of
Mark Krein.
He is the father of the mathematicians
Vitali Milman
Vitali Davidovich Milman ( he, ויטלי מילמן; russian: Виталий Давидович Мильман) (born 23 August 1939) is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is a professor at the Tel Aviv University. In the past he was ...
and
Pierre Milman; and the grandfather to the mathematician Emanuel Milman and biochemist Pavel Milman.
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1912 births
1982 deaths
20th-century Israeli mathematicians
Ukrainian Jews
20th-century Israeli Jews
Soviet mathematicians
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
Functional analysts
Soviet emigrants to Israel
Academic staff of K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University
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