Английская Википедия:Aryeh Dvoretzky
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox scientist Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky (Шаблон:Lang-he, Шаблон:Lang-ru; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics.[1][2] He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. He was the eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Biography
Aryeh Dvoretzky was born in Khorol, Imperial Russia (now Ukraine). His family immigrated to Palestine in 1922.[3] He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1933, and received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1941. His advisor was Michael Fekete. He continued working in Jerusalem, becoming a full professor in 1951, the first graduate of the Hebrew University to achieve this distinction.[4] Dvoretzky's son Gideon was killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Academic career
Dvoretzky had visiting appointments at a number of universities, including Collège de France, Columbia University, Purdue University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He also visited twice the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (in 1948–1950 and in 1957–1958).[5] In 1975, he founded the Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem based on the Princeton IAS model.[6] Dvoretzky was the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (1955–1956) and Vice President of the Hebrew University (1959–1961). He was elected president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1974–1980) and became the eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1986–1989). He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1996.[7] Dvoretzky's students included Branko Grünbaum and Joram Lindenstrauss.
Business and civic career
In 1960, he became the head of Rafael, the weapons development authority. He later became the chief scientist for the Israel Ministry of Defense.[8]
Awards and recognition
In 1998, received the Solomon Bublick Award of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1973, he was awarded Israel Prize in Mathematics.[1][9]
References
External links
- Шаблон:MathGenealogy
- Webpage at the Weitzmann Institute
- 1966 interview in Moscow, Russia; Eugene Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews, Cornell University Library.
Шаблон:Presidents of Weizmann Institute of Science
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Israel prize winner Prof. Aryeh Dvoretzky dies at 92
- ↑ Obituary Шаблон:Webarchive, by Joseph Yahav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ A community of scholarsШаблон:Dead link
- ↑ The Institute Mission Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Honorary doctor of philosophy (by year)
- ↑ 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev and Jessica Cohen (2007), p. 528.
- ↑ Israel prize winner Prof. Aryeh Dvoretzky dies at 92
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