Bernard Russell Gelbaum

Bernard Russell Gelbaum was a mathematician and academic administrator having served as a professor at the University of Minnesota, University of California, Irvine and as well as emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo. When he arrived at Buffalo 1971, he served as vice president for academic affairs as well as being a math professor.

Biography

While still an undergraduate at Columbia University, Gelbaum served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Signal Corps and was one of the first to liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. He went on to get his doctorate at Princeton University in 1948. His dissertation, Expansions in Banach Spaces, was supervised by Salomon Bochner.