Leonidas Alaoglu | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 19, 1914 |
| Died | August 1981 (aged 67) |
| Citizenship | Canadian-American |
| Education | University of Chicago |
| Known for | Alaoglu's theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics (Topology) |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Weak topologies of Normed linear spaces (1938) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lawrence M. Graves |
Leonidas (Leon) Alaoglu (Greek: Λεωνίδας Αλάογλου; March 19, 1914 – August 1981) was a mathematician best known for Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach–Alaoglu theorem.[1]