Albert Wilansky
Albert "Tommy" Wilansky was a Canadian-American mathematician, known for introducing Smith numbers.Biography
Wilansky was educated as an undergraduate at Dalhousie University, where he received an M.A. in mathematics in 1944. From 1944 to 1947 he was a graduate student at Brown University. In 1947 he received his Ph.D. with advisor Clarence Raymond Adams and dissertation An application of Banach linear functionals to the theory of summability.
From 1948 until his official retirement in 1992, Wilansky was a faculty member of the mathematics department of Lehigh University.
Wilansky did research in analysis, specializing in summability theory, linear topological spaces, Banach algebras, and functional analysis. He was the author of several books and the author or co-author of more than 80 articles. He lectured at over 50 different universities. In 1969 he received the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award for his 1968 article Spectral Decomposition of Matrices for High School Students.
Wilansky was married to his first wife from 1947 until her death in 1969. They had two daughters. He had three step-daughters from his second marriage.Selected publications
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