Mathematician:Leonidas Alaoglu

Mathematician
Canadian-American mathematician, most noted for his contribution towards the Banach-Alaoglu Theorem.

Nationality
Canadian-American (of Greek ancestry)

History

 * Born: March 19, 1914, Red Deer, Alberta
 * Died: August 1981

Theorems and Inventions

 * Alaoglu's Theorem
 * Banach-Alaoglu Theorem (with )

Publications

 * 1937: The Asymptotic Waring Problem for Fifth and Sixth Powers (M.Sc. thesis)
 * 1938: Weak topologies of normed linear spaces (Ph.D. thesis)