Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (died 1981)

Leonidas Alaoglu

Canadian-American mathematician (1914–1981)

Leonidas (Leon) Alaoglu 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.