Background

Schechter, Martin was born on March 10, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joshua and Rose (Shames) Schechter.

Education

Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1953;Master of Science, New York University, 1955;Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1957.

Career

Instructor, New York University, New York City, 1957-1959;from assistant professor to associate professor, New York University, New York City, 1959-1965;professor, New York University, New York City, 1965-1966;professor, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1966-1983;professor, University of California, Irvine, since 1983. Visiting associate professor University of Chicago, 1961. Visiting professor Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1973, Autonomous U., Mexico City, 1979.

Achievements

• Achievements include new results and theorems concerning boundary value problems for partial differential equations. Operators on Banach and Hilbert spaces. Spectral theory of partial differential operators;nonlinear functional analysis, critical point theory.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: Principles of Functional Analysis, 1971, Spectra of Partial Differential Operators, 1971, 2d edition, 1986, Modern Methods in Partial Differential Equations, 1977, Operator Methods in Quantum Mechanics, 1981, Linking Methods in Critical Point Theory, 1999. Contributor more than 150 articles to professional journals.

Connections

Married Naomi Deborah Kirzner, December 23, 1957. Children: Sharon Libby, Arthur Irving, Isaac David, Raphael Morris.

Father:

Joshua Schechter

Mother:

Rose (Shames) Schechter

Spouse:

Naomi Deborah Kirzner

child:

Sharon Libby Schechter

child:

Arthur Irving Schechter

child:

Isaac David Schechter

child:

Raphael Morris Schechter