Bernard Russell Gelbaum

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Bernard Russell Gelbaum
DiedMarch 22, 2005
Alma mater Columbia University, Princeton University
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Minnesota
University of California, Irvine
University at Buffalo
Doctoral advisor Salomon Bochner [1]
Doctoral students Mark Mahowald
Robert Zink

Bernard Russell Gelbaum (died March 22, 2005 Laguna Beach, California) was a mathematician and academic administrator having served as a professor at the University of Minnesota, University of California, Irvine (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, University at Buffalo. When he arrived at Buffalo 1971, he served as vice president for academic affairs as well as being a math professor. [2]

Biography

While still an undergraduate at Columbia University, [3] Gelbaum served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Signal Corps and was one of the first to liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. He went on to get his doctorate at Princeton University in 1948. [2] His dissertation, Expansions in Banach Spaces, was supervised by Salomon Bochner. [1]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Bernard Gelbaum, former administrator, math professor". UB Reporter. November 3, 2005. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  3. "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-14.