David Milman

David Pinchusowitsch Milman (Russian Давид Пинхусович Мильман; Hebrew דוד מילמן; born March 30, 1912 in Chichelnik at Vinnytsia, Ukraine, † July 12, 1982 in Tel Aviv ) was a Ukrainian- Israeli mathematician.

The date of birth was later dated by a registrar " for the sake of simplicity " to 1 January 1913. 1929 the family moved to Odessa. There he was in 1931 admitted to the State University in 1934 and earned a degree. For the sake of " social origin " him further mathematics education was denied until 1937. He could then study under MG Krein further and in 1939 received his doctorate. Subsequently, he was a lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute, but had to leave the university after the war ended with the dismissal of Krein. Then Milman taught at the Institute of Communications in Odessa until he immigrated in 1974 to Israel, where he took up a professorship at the University of Tel Aviv immediately.

David Milmans mathematical main area of ​​work was the functional analysis. With his name the set of Milman on the reflexivity uniformly convex spaces and the Krein - Milman on the extreme points of compact convex sets are connected.

He is the father of Canadian mathematician Pierre Milman and Israeli mathematician Vitali Milman (Professor in Tel -Aviv).