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Albert "Tommy" Wilansky (13 September 1921, St Johns, Newfoundland – 3 July 2017, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was a Canadian-American mathematician, known for introducing Smith-Zahl .[1][2]

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.[3] 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.[4]

From 1948 until his official retirement in 1992, Wilansky was a faculty member of the mathematics department of Lehigh University.[3]

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Wilansky did research in analysis, specializing in summability theory, linear topological spaces, Banach algebras, and functional analysis.[3] 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.[2] 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.[5] (The 1969 award was also given individually to 5 other mathematicians.)

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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  1. Wilansky, A.: Smith numbers. In: Two-Year College Mathematics Journal. 13. Jahrgang, 1982, S. 21, doi:10.2307/3026531, JSTOR:3026531.
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  3. a b c Zitarelli, David E.: EPADEL: A Sesquicentennial History, 1926–2000. (See personal profile of Albert Wilansky in Chapter 6.)
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  5. Spectral Decomposition of Matrices for High School Students. In: Mathematical Association of America. (with link to PDF of article, which was published in Mathematics Magazine )
  6. Stenger, Allen: Review of Topology for analysis. In: MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America. 10. Oktober 2009;.
  7. James R. Retherford: Book Review: Locally convex spaces by H. Jarchow and Modern methods in topological vector spaces by Albert Wilansky. In: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 7. Jahrgang, Nr. 3, 1982, ISSN 0273-0979, S. 612–615, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15069-8.
  8. Stenger, Allen: Review of “Modern Methods in Topological Vector Spaces”. In: MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America. 6. April 2015;.

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