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Teck-Cheong Lim is a United States mathematician.  Born in Singapore in 1950, he graduated from Nanyang University in 1970 with a B.Sc. in Mathematics with First Class Honors.  In 1974, at age 24, he received his Ph.D. doctorate and a Izaak Killiam Fellowship from Dalhousie University.

He is known for his research in nonlinear functional analysis, including fixed points of non-expansive operators.  Three of his most cited papers are:

• "A fixed point theorem for multivalued nonexpansive mappings in a uniformly convex Banach space," Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 80 (1974), pp. 1123-1126.
  
• "A fixed point theorem for families of nonexpansive mappings," Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 53 (1974), pp. 487-493.
  
• "Characterizations of normal structure," Proceedings of the American Mathematical Socity, 43 (1974), pp. 313-319.
  

He is a professor of mathematics at George Mason University.  He frequently posts in math.stackexchange.com and mathoverflow.net under the alias "TCL".