Edward "Ted" Wilfred Odell, Jr. (15 March 1947, in Pleasantville, New York – 9 January 2013, in Houston, Texas) was an American mathematician, specializing in the theory of Banach spaces.
degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and in 1975 his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under William Buhmann Johnson.
[2] From 1975 to 1977 Odell was a Josiah Willard Gibbs Instructor at Yale University.
[1] In 1994 Odell was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Zurich.
[3] In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.