Associate Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
Office: (615) 322-6651
Home: (615) 662-4552 (before 9 pm please)
E-mail:
schectex@math.vanderbilt.edu
Fall 1996 tentative office hours:
Mon 11-12, Thurs 12-1, Fri 11-12.
INTERESTS: Nonlinear functional analysis, particularly
fixed points; the
Axiom
of Choice and its alternatives and their effects on functional
analysis; initial value problems in Banach spaces. See also:Some link collections that I maintain:Brief bio:
I was born in 1950 in Washington, D.C., and grew up near there. At age
10 I read some of the books of Lillian and Hugh Lieber and Martin
Gardner, and from then on I knew I wanted to be a mathematician. I
obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1978. I taught at Duke
University for two years before coming to Vanderbilt, where I am now an
Associate Professor. I have done research on differential equations,
fixed point theory, the Hahn-Banach Theorem, and the Axiom of Choice.
My research slowed down for a few years while I worked on a large book that I
considered to be important. I am married to Elvira Casal, an English
teacher. We have two children, Lisa and Edgar, who insisted that
I mention them here. When I am not doing mathematics, I like to read science
fiction or surf the internet.
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